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On class, power, privilege, and impunity (A Rotten Crowd on KPFA’s ‘Against the Grain’)

A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One-Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby
By John Marsh
978-1-68590-083-0 / 136 pages / $19.95

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about rich people. Does his work also offer a critique of wealth and inequality? According to John Marsh, we can learn a lot about class, power, privilege, and impunity from a novel published 100 years ago. C.S. Soong interviewed Marsh about his new book A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby for Against the Grain. You can listen below:

A Rotten Crowd: America, Wealth, and One-Hundred Years of The Great Gatsby

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