PositiveThe Washington PostAntitrust is both a good book and a historic and important one—because Klobuchar, as the chair of the Senate Judicary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, is likely to oversee major changes to antitrust law ... Klobuchar is a skilled politician and excellent storyteller, so Antitrust is full of colorful characters (and old lithographed cartoons and pictures to match) ... In the last three chapters, Klobuchar describes what to do about the crisis ... The complexity of this section is overwhelming, and the writing, which had been so fluid and enjoyable, starts to wander. Klobuchar can sound like a prairie populist ... it’s hard to connect the historical section with the set of solutions ... she doesn’t explain how her proposals would address the deep-rooted problem of today’s largely pro-monopoly judiciary ... Klobuchar’s most important recommendation is where she really shines and where her book, with its colorful portrayals of what Americans did to free themselves of monopoly, is at its best. She calls for a mass movement against monopolies, similar to those that she argues animated American history.
