The Washington Post – Jay Mathews
“My favorite new book is former Congressman Barney Frank’s “Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage.” It is an entertaining — and unsettling — story of inequality in America, in the guise of an autobiography. I am particularly taken with his ending, where he identifies one educational institution as the key to keeping our nation from being permanently split in two. Frank asked a two-part question: Has inequality gone beyond what is healthy for the economy, and if so, what can we do about it? Two very different former chairs of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan and Benjamin Bernanke, gave amazingly similar answers: Inequality is excessive and a key solution would be increased access to community college.”(more)