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Title: Author is open about her biases, but they pervade the book
Review: I applaud Ehrenreich for being up-front about her biases. However, there was just too much of things like off-hand Marx quotations and terminology, fantasizing about poisoning a client because his/her house contained conservative books (p109), etc. Pure venom, occasionally related to the surrounding content of the book, spewed at ordinary middle-class Americans.If you like the New York Times editorial page, you'll probably just skim right past this stuff. If you are looking for a serious book about the plight of america's poor, skip this one. There must be something better out there than this. The factual content isn't worth wading through the vitriol.
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