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It's never easy being wealthy: endless duty avoidance, the Sisyphean search for reliable domestic staff, the never-ending burden of surly stares from the fantastic Sea of the Unwashed as one goes about one's rightful business. Toughest of all is simply keeping track of everything one possesses. There's so much of it. And personal property are just the start. You need to keep a gimlet eye, too, on the myriad people and organizations that safeguard your gilded position: politicians, newspaper publishers, financial devices, branches of government. They all participate in you. But being on top of what they're up to is a complete time job. What's an overstretched gazillionaire to do?Now, with the publication of Affluent People Things, the problems of our over-classes are, well, over. In a concise, easy-to-use guide, Chris Lehmann catalogs the fortifications that shelter the opulent from the resentments of the hoi polloi. From ideological stanchions like the Free Market and the Wealth Gospel, through the castellation of mass media, including The NY Times, Wired Journal and simple fact television, to burly gatekeepers such as David Brooks, Steve Forbes, and Alan Greenspan, the well-to-do will find, in these internet pages, a comforting and thorough selection of the protections that allow them to sleep audio at night. For ordinary people, Lehmann's gleaming prose, at exactly the same time pointed and whimsical, can at least give a diverting glimpse into the way the top one percent maintains an iron grip on almost 50 % of America's financial prosperity.
