This book was incredibly interesting. I feel like I learned a lot even though I feel like this space in the book world can be pretty saturated. I loved it.

Jason Rantz breaks down the breakdown of the American metropolis under Democratic leadership and uses his own investigative research as well as contemporary news reports to back up his claims. His book is an insightful take into what is causing some of the biggest problems in America’s urban centers, and he does so in a professional but easy-to-read way.

I had hopes for this book. Rantz is a radio personality in Seattle, where I live. His brand of reporting is reminiscent of Limbaugh and other right-wing talking heads. He came up in Seattle under the eye of another journalist, Dori Monson (RIP). Unfortunately, he took what Dori preached and ran way, way to the right. That is to say, take the news and some of the facts and twist them to fit his narrative that everything is going to hell. Or that Seattle is hell.
While I agree with some of his view points (Seattle is way too liberal and soft on crime), it's his delivery that turned me off. According to him, everyone "in power" is incompetent and crooked. Only "his" way is the right way...although if he really wanted to make a difference, maybe he should run for office. No, Rantz is only interested in sensationalism, fake outrage, stone-throwing, and building his own little empire. I'm so tired of these so-called journalists and politicians being 100% on the right, or 100% on the left, and just pandering to the fringes. What ever happened to the press being "fair and balanced"? Rantz and his ilk must have discovered that it is too much work to see both sides of a story, and is much easier to just make stuff up to suit their narrative.
And don't just take it from me. I listen to the radio station Rantz "reports" on. For the most part, it is filled with actual reporters who try to provide balanced reporting. Even they, in little comments on their shows, display their disdain of Rantz by calling him a troublemaker.
I suggest that, rather than buying this book, you simply throw yourself into a manure pile and roll around. You will come out feeling less dirty!

This book was well-written and obviously well-researched, but I found myself confused at points when I couldn't understand the author's viewpoint.