A review by shelfimprovement
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town by Brian Alexander

4.0

The "Hocking" in Anchor Hocking is the name of the river that I could see from the window in my childhood bedroom, less than an hour south of Lancaster. This book tells a story that is very important to me, personally.

I have millions of thoughts on this book and I will eventually coalesce them into something coherent, but for now just let me say: fuck Milton Friedman. Fuck him with the biggest, thorniest stick on the planet. Fuck Ronald Reagan for legitimizing Friedman, fuck Mitt Romney for his "corporations are people" bullshit, and fuck Donald Trump for being the prime example of the kind of economics that Brian Alexander is trying to shine a light on here.