Political
In the Affluent Society, Galbraith offers up his view of the world, or rather how he feels the rest of the world views it wrong! He points out that when much of the early economic literature was written, there had begun a fundamental shift in world economics. Up until that time, poverty was the norm... bare sustenance was the primary economic problem to be solved. About the time Adam Smith began observing the pin factory, the world was changing to become what Galbraith calls, an "Affluent Soc
This is a fascinating look at the Supreme Court that is unfortunately marred by the incredible bias of the author. I enjoy reading a diversity of opinions, however Toobin so blatantly injects his political beliefs into this story that it leaves one to wonder about the factual nature of his accounts. As I recently explained to my son, an 8th grader, sometimes what an author doesn't tell you is as important as what he does tell you. While all of the anecotes are fascinating and the book itself
This book is supposed to be about former Secretary of Treasury Paul O'neil, however the auther, Ron Suskind, doesn't do a very good job of hiding his true intentions of writing a disparaging commentary on the Bush Administration. The author goes to great lengths to point out the accuracy of the book from a factual perspective, however as is often the case with a biased author, the accuracy of the reported facts is often out-weighed by the obviously missing facts. Critics of the Bush Administra