PositiveThe Wall Street Journal[Whippman\'s] book is honest, truth-seeking and balanced. She confronts evidence that challenges her own liberal priors and changes her mind on a number of issues.
Daniel Markovits
MixedThe Financial Times... well-timed ... Markovits vividly describes the growing gap between the \'gloomy\' jobs on offer to less-educated workers with the \'glossy\' ones pursued by the elite ... Markovits, like so many before him, highlights a handful of high school suicides in Palo Alto. And there are always stories to be found of an investment banker committing suicide or a stressed corporate mother FedExing breast milk to the nanny. But as Markovits reports, life expectancy among the affluent is rising rapidly, while it has flatlined or even fallen a little for the poor — strong evidence against the idea of life being so tough at the top ... Markovits is on safer ground closer to home ... like many legal scholars, Markovits also has a fine pen ... He is also scathing about politics ... Clearly Markovits felt the need to offer solutions. But they are thin gruel.
