Hunter Lewis

The noise you hear when reading this book is the sound of scales hitting the ground as they fall from your eyes. Jargon-free reading assists in the understanding of the material and ensures that you anger can freely fume about the way governments the world over play with the poor schmucks they are supposed to take serve and protect. I found confirmation for my long-held belief that the altruism professed by politicians is non-existent - how could it be when everything they do is focused on show more being re-elected? And that includes the ones of whom I approve! show less

I'm a third of the way through and most of the arguments made by the author are facile and full of holes. If it's meant to be a depiction of the shallowness of modern economic thinking, it may have some merit, but I think it more suffers from intellectual anemia. I have a feeling that Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" will be more intellectually satisfying and useful.

The distilling of Fox’s Journal to arrive at its essence requires a high degree of informed editing skills to ensure the more obscure passages are left out in favour of those that have an immediate and contemporary relevance: passages that are full of timeless wisdom and advice regarding our relationship with the world and how best we can live our lives in it.

There is a risk in such selective editing that could result in a disjointed read, but here the selections are skillfully threaded show more to create a seamlessly coherent work augmented--where appropriate--with editor’s notes. show less

A Groundbreaking Book