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  • Archive for July 12th, 2007

    Daniel Brook’s The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America

    Thursday, July 12th, 2007

    This recently released book by Daniel Brook (who shares my agent Larry Weissman) is a provocative look at how a winner-takes-all society sucks the best and the brighest away from public interest fields that can better society. Rick Perlstein gives a thoughtful analysis of the book.
    Daniel will be doing a reading on Monday Jan […]