The Future of Success
by Robert B. Reich

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Book Review: Not good to the last page...good 'till the last few pages
Summary: 2 Stars

The major fault in this is the skew with which it was written. Robert Reich worked in the Clinton administration and it shows. The facts and figures, while impressive, rarely present the whole truth, or both sides of the issue. His writing style is clear and generally entertaining, but he overstates almost everything and beats all of the topics to death. This book could have been written in about 2/3 the size by simply condensing the ideas.

The closing chapter of the book makes a sudden shift from pseudo-factual and not-too-opinion based to promoting a 100% left-ist, almost communist, tax and spend, entitlement-supporting government economic style. He recommends a new tax and new bureaucracy in order to fix every problem, under the guise of "a small tax on X will hardly be noticed in comparison to the benefits".

All that said, I cannot not recommend this book. It was cheap, educational, and thought provoking. Hopefully, for the sake of myself and my children, no one will base a government economic system on the content of this book.

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