... essential, absorbing, infuriating, full-of-facts-you-didn’t-know, saxophonely written.

... not a slog through terrible news. The book is, perhaps counterintuitively, terrifically entertaining and engaging. Andersen is a lively and funny writer who has honed his voice through a long career as a journalist, novelist, humorist and radio host/podcaster for Studio 360. The elements he is able to pull together and weave into a narrative that so convincingly pinpoints how we arrived at this moment are consistently novel and interesting.

Andersen is a confident synthesizer and writes with the zeal of the recently converted.

... a timely, hard-hitting analysis of America’s “hijacked, screwed-up political economy.

Much of Andersen’s material will be familiar to newshounds, but he arranges it into a cohesive argument backed by hard data and stinging prose. Readers will get a clearer picture of how the U.S. got to where it is today..