{"id":76,"date":"2007-07-12T01:23:33","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T06:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/07\/12\/daniel-brooks-the-trap-selling-out-to-stay-afloat-in-winner-take-all-america\/"},"modified":"2007-07-14T23:18:33","modified_gmt":"2007-07-15T04:18:33","slug":"daniel-brooks-the-trap-selling-out-to-stay-afloat-in-winner-take-all-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/12\/daniel-brooks-the-trap-selling-out-to-stay-afloat-in-winner-take-all-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Brook&#8217;s The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/thetrapcover.jpg\" title=\"The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/thetrapcover.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>This recently released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com\/henryholt\/search\/SearchBookDisplay.asp?BookKey=4053903\" title=\"The Trap\">book <\/a>by Daniel Brook (who shares my agent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/thetrapcover.jpg\" title=\"The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America\"><\/a>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. <a href=\"http:\/\/rickperlstein.org\/\" title=\"Rick Perlstein\">Rick Perlstein <\/a>gives a <a href=\"http:\/\/commonsense.ourfuture.org\/independence_day\" title=\"Rick Perlstein's review of The Trap by Daniel Brook\">thoughtful analysis<\/a> of the book.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Daniel will be doing a reading on Monday Jan 23, 7 p.m. at The Half King pub at 505 West 23rd Street, just past 10th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-1e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}