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In the spirit of such pamphleteers as Thomas Paine; such muckrakers as Ida Tarbell; such investigators as Izzy Stone; and such storytellers as Woody Guthrie, Hightower wields a prolific pen that challenges the greedheads of Wall Street and the boneheads of Washington. Hard-hitting yet humorous, Jim's writings deliver content and attitude you won't get elsewhere.
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"Thank God for Jim Hightower. Instead of leaving us stewing in anger and despair, he rallies us with stories of our own history and of our own neighbors, inspiring us to take charge of our own democratice destiny. And he leaves us laughing and thinking at the same time."
- Studs Terkel
The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Rather, the uprising sprang directly from the public's raw outrage over Washington's flagrant coddling of Wall Street banksters.



