RaveFinancial TimesA harrowing book ... Packed with recent on-the-ground reporting, the book weaves in the legal history of abortion rights and some politics, but can offer very little hope for the future.
Diana B Henriques
PositiveFinancial TimesThough regulatory history runs the risk of being technical and dry, Henriques neatly sidesteps this problem by anchoring her story in four larger-than-life personalities ... The author’s detailed research and colourful stories bring to life the dogged efforts of New Deal reformers to investigate the wrongdoing, and write laws and rules to prevent a repeat.
Adam Cohen
PositiveFinancial TimesMeticulously researched and engagingly written, Supreme Inequality is a howl of progressive rage against the past half-century of American jurisprudence. Cohen, a former New York Times and Time magazine writer, builds a comprehensive indictment of the court’s rulings ... While his legal analysis is accurate, Cohen’s fury makes him overstate the Supreme Court’s role.
Joshua Specht
MixedFinancial TimesRed Meat Republic is clunk[y]—the book started out as Specht’s doctoral dissertation and retains an academic tone. But his examination of the Cattle Kingdom shows how it helped reshape the midwest and south-west as Native Americans were driven off prime range land and boom towns rose to serve the migrating herds and then fell as railroads took over an increasing part of the transportation network ... Specht’s story of how the meatpackers exploited unskilled labour, bankrupted local butchers and seized power from the railroads holds warnings for today.
Michael Lewis
PositiveThe Financial Times\"Now Lewis has produced a surprisingly readable and compelling love letter to bureaucracy and the unglamorous but vital things that the US federal government — and by extension all competent technocrats — spend their days doing ... Part of the book’s power lies in the sense that all of this good work is under threat from forces in Donald Trump’s administration that are at best indifferent and in some cases actively hostile to the work Lewis’s subjects are conducting ... [Lewis] makes [his point] clear with instance after instance of the Trump administration failing to heed or even meet with his heroic bureaucrats...\
