MixedThe Los Angeles Review of BooksWhile Callahan works really hard to stress the plurality of big-donor interests — there are environmentalist donors! feminist donors! velodrome-obsessed donors! — his proclamations along these lines seem a bit desperate. It feels like he is squinting in order to pretend a draining glass is half full ... It’s clear that he wants to avoid more charged political phrasing because so much of what these donors are doing is so earnest and well intentioned...But there’s an old saying about the road to hell, and the content of the pavement that leads to it ... By emphasizing the possibility of reforming the tax code and encouraging Americans to advocate for a better-financed government, Callahan reminds us that the United States remains a place where the many still have the capacity to rein in the influence of the few.
