George Orwell famously said that politically common sense was not more useful. People in other areas of your life are conducted in a rational and coherent logic, in contradictory political concepts inadvertently harbor and guided by prejudices and passions that often flow directly into fanaticism. In Poor magnates, Thomas Frank explores an impressive lucidity a phenomenon that seems to defy common logic: how the American right managed to turn the biggest financial crisis since the depression of 1929 to convince corporations that caused, especially , Wall Street actually were the main victims. So, instead of bring the crisis to question fanaticism market and financial deregulation that allowed once again, that they were deprived millions in profits while socializing losses, 1% that holds most of the wealth out more stronger than ever, with the support of much unexplained 99% disadvantaged. At this time of widespread economic crisis in the West, where several generations of European citizens will have to pay the bank bailouts, Poor magnates is an excellent opportunity to understand the enormous seductive power and the electoral advance of right-wing populism guide. In that sense, as evidenced Thomas Frank, the first enemy to overcome to change things up every morning looking from the other side of the mirror.