{"id":9453,"date":"2022-10-10T00:04:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9453"},"modified":"2022-10-10T00:04:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T05:04:41","slug":"brilliant-and-devastating-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9453","title":{"rendered":"BRILLIANT AND DEVASTATING ASSESSMENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B09NRWS4FR\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>First, a note about the cover design. The photo does not do it justice, but this is a beautiful and provocative cover. It is truly a work of art.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kotkin&#8217;s book only has 172 pages of text, but it is not a quick read. This is hardly due to a lack of lucid writing. Indeed, the book is written in a very lucid manner. The reason it is not a quick read, or at least should not be a quick read, is that Kotkin packs so much in for the reader to consider.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In a nutshell, this book does a brilliant job at detailing the forces that are hollowing out the middle class.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, the text only is 172 pages, but Kotkin&#8217;s prodigious research into these issue yields almost 100 pages of endnotes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Highly recommended!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a note about the cover design. The photo does not do it justice, but this is a beautiful and provocative cover. It is truly a work of art. Kotkin&#8217;s book only has 172 pages of text, but it is not a quick read. This is hardly due to a lack of lucid writing. Indeed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,164,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-economy-econnomics","category-medieval-period"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9454,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9453\/revisions\/9454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}