Third World America

In this title, dramatically read by actress Coleen Marlo, New York Times best-selling author/blogger Huffington (www.huffingtonpost.com) posits that the United States is in danger of becoming a Third World country if the middle class doesn't wake up and insist on change in Washington. Unfortunately, while she has no difficulty in identifying the problems—e.g., climbing unemployment rates, skyrocketing health-care costs—when it comes to offering solutions she falls into the familiar rhetoric of "we all have to band together" and "American innovation…will save us." Nevertheless, she offers up food for thought from which listeners can draw their own conclusions. While geared to the "abandoned" middle class, this title would perhaps do the most good force-fed to the politicians who claim to represent them.—Valerie Piechocki, Prince George's Cty. Memorial Lib., Largo, MD