The New Republic, September 8, 1973
BOOKS BY POLITICIANS tend to be boring, staff-produced efforts designed to display The Boss as a thoughtful public servant. What sets Fred Harris’ apart is his unique angle of vision. He is the only major politician who says publicly and indeed vociferously that American capitalism is a shuck.
The New Republic, April 29, 1972
The book’s thesis is that a political majority can be built by rallying workers, minorities and young people around a banner that reads: “Some institutions and people have too much money and power, most people have too little, and the first priority of politics must be to redress that imbalance.”
The New Republic, April 27, 1974
THE VERY RICH, as F. Scott Fitzgerald observed, are different from us. They have pelf and power, exclusive schools, luxurious watering holes and above all, an abiding interest in preserving the economic system that so generously rewards them.
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