Clearly, those who really like Dick Morris will buy his books, and those who ferociously dislike him will use the pages for other purposes. This review merely recommends picking up the book for reading, knowing that most people will both find many sections they disagree with, and will also be entertained by the story as it goes along.As with other Morris-McGann books, the authors depend on a mild variety of shock value. They mildly shock the reader with the amount of detail they are willing to put to paper, and risk libel actions downstream. They also shock by taking on a variety of topics reaching all over the political and sociological spectrum. Imagine hearing first their outrage (and earlier book title!) about an Obama presidency, then later a more vigorous anger over Haliburton's recent skulduggery in Iraq? Or first about the badmouthing of teachers' unions fleecing their teachers, then later about teachers being underpaid? In truth, these are all of one stripe: the rich and powerful tend to have more tools and opportunity to take advantage of "regular" people. To the extent that their research is both accurate AND reasonably complete, the fleecing truly is outrageous.The Morris's will simply have to get better editing, though. If the reader gets distracted by bad English usage or confusing language style, then there are small parts of "Fleeced" which will grate the nerves from time to time. There are thankfully fewer of these than in "Outrage." One of the gems showing up on page 217: "Satisfied to know that they investments are being well managed,...." Awful! The publisher should have known better also. Nevertheless, English professors simply have to get over extreme judgments, and go get the book. At least check it out from the library.
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