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David W. Levy

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David Levy is David Ross Boyd Professor of American History at the University of Oklahoma.

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Utopian fiction, without the utopian part of it :P. So this entire thing is done as a series of conversations, its like one big lecture, so not great.
Its a fairly easy read though and since its about the gap between rich and poor its still relevant today. In fact i would say too relevant, or at least too familiar.
There are things of interest here. The writing is easy and witty at times. There's some some very blinkered sexism which you can laugh or wince at. Plus a brief mention of a mega-corporation controlling all aspects of a country, perhaps one of the first appearances of such an idea.

However i'm getting more discerning with every book i read and in a world of infinite books i felt like deducting a star.
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42
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