{"product_id":"9781944212650","title":"The Logic of the Rational Mind: What we've learned--and haven't learned--from the last 100 years","description":"\u003cp\u003e“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers it can bribe the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epublic with the public’s money.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e–Alexis de Tocqueville\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePast performance is no guarantee of future performance, but it is an indicator of where we are heading. In \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of the Rational Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, Al Bienenfeld compares past economic and political events with the present to determine America’s future:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow the Great Depression and Great Recession—79 years later—prove experts still aren’t getting it right.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow FDR—“Franklin the First”—our first constitutional monarch—and “Barack the First”—our second—are similar.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eHow the new fascists are threatening to take advantage of our weaknesses, just like Germany in the 1930s. And you know what happened less than a decade later.\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing is going to happen tomorrow that didn’t happen yesterday. Maybe it’s time we learned.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World Ahead Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47157658910960,"sku":"9781944212650","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781944212650_p0.jpg?v=1763791344","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781944212650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}