Richistan

Some Americans are really, really wealthy. “Richistan”, by Robert Frank, is a description of the lives of the upper 1% in America, who make huge amounts of income and live vastly different lives from the rest of us. This book is fascinating and manages to examine the social consequences of economic inequality while at the same time treating those who have more money than the rest of us as human beings.

American income inequality has been an issue since Reagan began dismantling regulation and our tax code. Frank, in a curious and fascinated manner, examines the everyday lives of the ultra rich and shows the readers a world that is so alien as to be a foreign land, thus the title.

It is a good book and a good read, albeit a brief one, and is well worth picking up. I purchased it but would recommend you borrow it from a friend or the library. However, if you do purchase it you won’t be disappointed.