The Snarling Citizen Book

I don't wish to repeat myself by saying the same things that I did for the last Barbara Ehrenreich collection of essays The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed, but the general feelings are the same. The only difference is the decade: this book is about the 1990's where The Worst Years is from the 1980's. The absence of a significant straw man in the 1990's (she doesn't focus on Gingrich, which surprised me) affects this book negatively on the entertainment scale. There's a bit of sniping on George Herbert Walker Bush, but she doesn't display the same venom that Reagan generated in her.

The writing is still very good and she presents her arguments well, but, as I've said in my previous review, she'll convince no one of anything different. Her goal is not to persuade and she'll be relegated to having her arguments and musings repeated(probably badly) by fellow travellers. It's such a shame that she chooses not to use her talents to mount a proper defense of her views.