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I feel like there must have been some string pulling that made this book so popular.

It just came out at an appropriate time; a year after Occupy Wall Street, etc. Inequality and inter-generational mobility is clearly on people's minds these days.

Similar story happened with Nassim Taleb's Black Swan book. It's not a particularly good book -- it's rambling, hand wavy, and only ever presents anecdotal evidence as support for its claims. But the book came out at an appropriate time (right before the financial crisis) so it was embraced.

We need a complete top-to-bottom restructuring of our Federal Government--end welfare, end the giant socialist military system hiding within our economy. We need to audit the Fed and then probably close it down or somehow come up with sound money. We need to prosecute every banker and every entity involved in the 2008 financial crisis.

That would solve 90% of what ails us. Getting the EPA off people's backs and back to some level of sanity would help a ton, too.

> (...some rant...) That would solve 90% of what ails us.

Somehow this reminds me of https://xkcd.com/1217/

Given that it was published in the US by a university press that had never had such a bestseller before, that's very unlikely.

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