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Wob has a rating of 4.21 stars from 1,372 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Wob most frequently mention good condition, second hand, and great service. Wob ranks 6th among Books Other sites.

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  • Quality 778

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  • I have been using this website to buy second hand books for a couple of years now.
  • They provide a great service and good, clean, quality books .

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  • and then Ill get refunded book cost only, What terrible customer service

“Very good service.”

My order for four books was expedited quickly and received in good condition and on time. A thoroughly good service.

“Sent wrong book- Require me to send back at my cost”

Sent the wrong version of George Orwell Coming up for Air that was on their website. Eventually accepted this was mistake but then told me I would need to pay the postage to send back, very bizarre! Will be staying well clear in future.

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I ordered a two volume set of books which was misdescribed on their website. They only sent one book for which I paid 59 pounds. The only way to contact them is by way of an AI chatbot. No response from a real person. Avoid.

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I have used Wob several times now. My books have always arrived within a few days, and been in good condition. Wob has become my first choice if I am looking for books, as it is a B-corp and helping to re-use books and cut down on waste, something that I wholeheartedly support. I also recommend it to my friends if they are book-hunting. I haven't tried Ziffit yet, but that also looks great. Keep up the good work!

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To me your service is a lifeline - so thank you! Within 24 hours, the last book I was chasing (which had originally ‘sold out') to my delight and disbelief, another had become available:) I am disabled and virtually housebound, so it's not possible for me to search the shops for a bargain etc. I feel ‘at home' with ‘WOB' and appreciate all your efforts. Thank you for this service :) and your exciting ‘trademark' packaging, so I always know its you!

Tip for consumers: I’ve had a consistent and excellent service from this company for a number of years now and trust them fully - I always check and look for their website first when searching for good quality used books :)

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I placed an order for about several hundred dollars of books. I received a confirmation email and nothing else (besides marketing emails) for several weeks. Eventually, I tried to log in to check the status of my order and the order was not linked to my account. Instead, I used the chatbot to ask to ask about the status of my order. According to the bot, all my books had been bought by someone right before I did so none of them were available and would be refunded. I tried contacting by email several times and received no response. Several months later I had no books and no refund to my card. I still have been unable to reach anyone about this problem.

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Excellent service, books arrived quickly and in as described order/condition. Easy to use website with a really good selection of books.

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This is one of the best sites I use online, they genuinely care about their customers, all their descriptions, of what they sell, are spot on, the selections are very good and delivery is, in my experience, fast and free, if you try WOB, then I'm pretty sure you will not be disappointed, ii have made several different purchases, And will continue to do so, for the foreseeable future, take a bow WOB, you have earned it... Superb!

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Do they actually send the books or it it just a scam also, do they lie about the condition of the books do they actually send the books or it it just a scam also, do they lie about the condition of the books.

Hello, we do send books yes. We do not lie about condition either. All condition guides are found on our site and if you are ever unhappy with your order our friendly customer service team will help you out. Thanks, World of Books

I lost a book in postage. do i claim that from you or the postage service. I lost a book in postage. do i claim that from you or the postage service.

Hi, pop an email to [email protected] and we can look into this further for you. Thanks, Wob

Order wgb2302 17903126 16/2/23 £13.47 i have received two of the three books i ordered, when can i expect the third? the murders of fleet house by Order wgb2302 17903126 16/2/23 £13.47 i have received two of the three books i ordered, when can i expect the third? the murders of fleet house by

Please get in touch with us at [email protected] and we can look into this further. Thanks, Wob

Have you an e book service Have you an e book service

Hello, thanks for your question, we do not at the moment sadly. Thanks, Wob

Why did you change the name of your organisation? i really don't like wob - tacky, undignified. love the service, dislike the name. Why did you change the name of your organisation? i really don't like wob - tacky, undignified. love the service, dislike the name.

We started in 2002 with a mission to find used books new homes. A lot has changed since then as we've expanded into new countries and new products, so we wanted a new name which reflects who we are now. Lots of our customers and fans have already shortened our name to Wob, so it made sense to choose this for our new name. For us, books will always be our first passion, but now we are so much more! By changing our name to Wob, we're keeping true to our heritage & changing for the future. Thanks for your feedback, we will pass it on to the Brand team. Thanks, Wob

Are there other similar companies to worldofbooks that are less expensive or better? Are there other similar companies to worldofbooks that are less expensive or better?

Hi, This question was posted a while ago. World of Books buys directly from charities, taking the titles they don't want or haven't got space for. So as well as preventing the destruction of perfectly good books, our customers are helping to support good causes too. We are constantly learning and improving. If you want to read more about us you can here - https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/about-us Thanks, World of Books

I still haven't recieved the book by ann hood? thanks michele hood I still haven't recieved the book by ann hood? thanks michele hood

Hi, please drop us an email at [email protected] and the team will be happy to assist. Thanks, Wob

What is return policy What is return policy

Here you go :) https://www.wob.com/en-gb/frequently-asked-questions#1Pay Thanks, Wob

What information is shown on the paperwork that comes with the shipment? is the email address shown? What information is shown on the paperwork that comes with the shipment? is the email address shown?

Hello, we do not send out any paperwork with our orders. If you need an invoice please email [email protected] and the team can assist you. Thanks, Wob

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World of books have an astonishing…

World of books have an astonishing amount of fantastic books at superb prices. Free delivery and secure and swift delivery. I can't stop buying from them. Great deals too. Thoroughly recommended. Give then a try. You won't be disappointed.

Date of experience : February 15, 2024

Great everything

Great service. Books arrive quickly.Excellellent prices. The books are more often than not in better condition the advertised. I'm doing my bit for the planet too. Its the5 first place I look for a particular book.

Date of experience : February 12, 2024

My initial purchases condition was not…

My initial purchases condition was not as described.I contacted WOB and after sending a couple of photos I was sent a free replacement. My contact was with Louis and who was very helpful and prompt in his replies

World of Books is the best!

I love World of Books and order from them every couple of months to top up my shelves (most recent purchases: a Poirot, couple of Discworlds, and some autobiographies). They have a great range at affordable prices. Quick delivery too! I recommend them to all my friends.

Ordering more than one book

Ordered 4 books. One was missing but was sent promptly once I had notified them. Apparently, sometimes they do not get all dispatched at the same time so may arrive separately. Books were in very good condition.

Excellent service

Importantly the books ordered were not just delivered on time but earlier than expected. Also they were in perfect condition as described. Very happy.

My go to bookseller. The Wob website is very easy to use.

The Wob website is very easy to use. Communication is quick and clear. Delivery is prompt. Prices and the quality of books are competitive with comparable sites. Books are recycled

Date of experience : January 27, 2024

I have used this company many times

I have used this company many times. My recent books were sent promptly, were well packed and in the condition as stated. I am very pleased with them, and with the organization generally. I will continue to use them.👍

Highly recommend

I have been using WOB for quite a while now and never had any problems, books are in great condition and they are dispatched really fast. Would definitely recommend to all book lovers.

Date of experience : February 13, 2024

Second-hand book ordered arrived in…

Second-hand book ordered arrived in good time and in good condition. I have bought several books now from WOB and am always pleased with the service and the condition of the books.

Date of experience : January 24, 2024

A great service

I found a book on WoB I couldn't find enywhere else. It arrived on time, well packaged and in almost mint condition. A great service I have used before and will certainly use again.

Books were fine but came in two…

Books were fine but came in two different packages which would have been handy to know because I thought one was missing as it was a few days after the first package arrived that it came.

Really excellent quality second hand…

Really excellent quality second hand book, just as advertised with fast delivery. Very pleased and will definitely buy from WOB again and again.

great price, great quality

great price for good quality books—if you aren’t satisfied with the quality of your book then the customer support is quick to fix your problem!

Happy customer

This is my first time using wob. The books were in better condition than I thought they would be. The delivery time was very good, although tracking would have been an extra benefit. Pricing was fair too.

Date of experience : January 18, 2024

Easy sign up and order process

Easy sign up and order process. Speedy delivery and well packaged. Only problem was I didn't realise my selection was in such tiny print.

Vorsicht was man kauft/Be careful what you buy

Vorsicht was man kauft, mir was eine Disk Bumblebee 4K UHD wurde angeboten mit Deutscher Tonspur, gekommen ist eine reine UK Version mit nur englischer Tonspur. Den Rückversand muss ich jetzt selber tragen. Lieferzeit auch sehr lange. Lieber ein paar Euro mehr bei einem Deutschen Anbieter zahlen und alles gut. Be careful what you buy, I was offered a disk Bumblebee 4K UHD with German soundtrack, came a pure UK version with only English soundtrack. I now have to pay the return shipping myself. Delivery time also very long. Better to pay a few euros more with a German provider and everything is fine.

Date of experience : January 29, 2024

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Hello, Thank you for your review, we are sorry to hear this, please can you email [email protected] with the subject TRUSTPILOT along with your order number and a description of the issue so we can investigate this further for you. Many thanks, Wob

Good for sourcing out of print items

I ordered a copy of Into the Blue by Robert Goddard and this was the only place I could find one. A paperback, not in very good condition but I expected that. A good site to get hold of items not found anywhere else.

Found just what I was looking for in great condition at an a good price. Ordering was easy and delivery faultless and quick. What more would you need?

Your service was fast

Your service was fast, efficient and accurate. Value for money was also very good. Product description was fair and helpful.

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World of books have an astonishing…

World of books have an astonishing amount of fantastic books at superb prices. Free delivery and secure and swift delivery. I can't stop buying from them. Great deals too. Thoroughly recommended. Give then a try. You won't be disappointed.

Date of experience : 15 February 2024

Great everything

Great service. Books arrive quickly.Excellellent prices. The books are more often than not in better condition the advertised. I'm doing my bit for the planet too. Its the5 first place I look for a particular book.

Date of experience : 12 February 2024

My initial purchases condition was not…

My initial purchases condition was not as described.I contacted WOB and after sending a couple of photos I was sent a free replacement. My contact was with Louis and who was very helpful and prompt in his replies

World of Books is the best!

I love World of Books and order from them every couple of months to top up my shelves (most recent purchases: a Poirot, couple of Discworlds, and some autobiographies). They have a great range at affordable prices. Quick delivery too! I recommend them to all my friends.

Ordering more than one book

Ordered 4 books. One was missing but was sent promptly once I had notified them. Apparently, sometimes they do not get all dispatched at the same time so may arrive separately. Books were in very good condition.

Excellent service

Importantly the books ordered were not just delivered on time but earlier than expected. Also they were in perfect condition as described. Very happy.

My go to bookseller. The Wob website is very easy to use.

The Wob website is very easy to use. Communication is quick and clear. Delivery is prompt. Prices and the quality of books are competitive with comparable sites. Books are recycled

Date of experience : 27 January 2024

I have used this company many times

I have used this company many times. My recent books were sent promptly, were well packed and in the condition as stated. I am very pleased with them, and with the organization generally. I will continue to use them.👍

Highly recommend

I have been using WOB for quite a while now and never had any problems, books are in great condition and they are dispatched really fast. Would definitely recommend to all book lovers.

Date of experience : 13 February 2024

Second-hand book ordered arrived in…

Second-hand book ordered arrived in good time and in good condition. I have bought several books now from WOB and am always pleased with the service and the condition of the books.

Date of experience : 24 January 2024

A great service

I found a book on WoB I couldn't find enywhere else. It arrived on time, well packaged and in almost mint condition. A great service I have used before and will certainly use again.

Books were fine but came in two…

Books were fine but came in two different packages which would have been handy to know because I thought one was missing as it was a few days after the first package arrived that it came.

Really excellent quality second hand…

Really excellent quality second hand book, just as advertised with fast delivery. Very pleased and will definitely buy from WOB again and again.

great price, great quality

great price for good quality books—if you aren’t satisfied with the quality of your book then the customer support is quick to fix your problem!

Happy customer

This is my first time using wob. The books were in better condition than I thought they would be. The delivery time was very good, although tracking would have been an extra benefit. Pricing was fair too.

Date of experience : 18 January 2024

Easy sign up and order process

Easy sign up and order process. Speedy delivery and well packaged. Only problem was I didn't realise my selection was in such tiny print.

Vorsicht was man kauft/Be careful what you buy

Vorsicht was man kauft, mir was eine Disk Bumblebee 4K UHD wurde angeboten mit Deutscher Tonspur, gekommen ist eine reine UK Version mit nur englischer Tonspur. Den Rückversand muss ich jetzt selber tragen. Lieferzeit auch sehr lange. Lieber ein paar Euro mehr bei einem Deutschen Anbieter zahlen und alles gut. Be careful what you buy, I was offered a disk Bumblebee 4K UHD with German soundtrack, came a pure UK version with only English soundtrack. I now have to pay the return shipping myself. Delivery time also very long. Better to pay a few euros more with a German provider and everything is fine.

Date of experience : 29 January 2024

Reply from Wob

Hello, Thank you for your review, we are sorry to hear this, please can you email [email protected] with the subject TRUSTPILOT along with your order number and a description of the issue so we can investigate this further for you. Many thanks, Wob

Good for sourcing out of print items

I ordered a copy of Into the Blue by Robert Goddard and this was the only place I could find one. A paperback, not in very good condition but I expected that. A good site to get hold of items not found anywhere else.

Found just what I was looking for in great condition at an a good price. Ordering was easy and delivery faultless and quick. What more would you need?

Your service was fast

Your service was fast, efficient and accurate. Value for money was also very good. Product description was fair and helpful.

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A certain weight of expectation accrues on writers of short fiction who haven’t produced a novel, as if the short story were merely the larval stage of longer work. No matter how celebrated the author and her stories, how garlanded with prizes and grants, the sense persists: She will eventually graduate from the short form to the long. After an adolescence spent munching milkweed in increments of 10,000 words or less, she will come to her senses and build the chrysalis required for a novel to emerge, winged and tender, from within.

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Susanna and Laura Hand, the sisters, are in a band with Daniel Knowe, who’s been secretly dating Susanna but is opaquely detested by Mo Gorch, who is close friends with the girl Laura has a deep crush on — the girl Susanna kissed out of spite. They’ve all known one another since childhood, and they’re all on the cusp of adulthood. Tugging the story forward through these relationships are the questions of how Laura, Daniel and Mo died, why they came back, who or what slipped out of death alongside them, and what they all have to do to stay on this side of the grave.

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How the art world excludes you and what you can do about it.

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In her new book Get the Picture, journalist Bianca Bosker explores why connecting with art sometimes feels harder than it has to be. Above, a visitor takes in paintings at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2010. Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images hide caption

In her new book Get the Picture, journalist Bianca Bosker explores why connecting with art sometimes feels harder than it has to be. Above, a visitor takes in paintings at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London in 2010.

When Bianca Bosker told people in the art world she'd be writing a tell-all about their confounding, exclusive ecosystem, "bad idea," they responded.

"They didn't come right out and threaten my safety or anything," she writes in Get the Picture , "My reputation, well-being, and livelihood as a journalist —that, however, was another story." Judging from the book's recent reviews , she need not worry too much.

Bosker's motivation for writing the book was partly frustration. "I didn't know how to have a meaningful experience of art and that bothered me," she tells me, "But also like I think the art fiends that I got to know, it's not just that they look at art differently. They behave sort of like they've accessed this trapdoor in their brains and I envied that."

Get the Picture by Bianca Bosker

Other journalists might have relied on research and interviews. Bosker went gonzo. She spent five years immersed in the New York art scene, working as a gallery assistant and helping artists in their studios. After getting a license to be a security guard with the state of New York, she got a guard job at the Guggenheim.

Bosker didn't necessarily set out to write a takedown of the art world, though the result is pretty much just that. She writes about the time a performance artist sat on her face. And recounts a conversation with a dealer who said her mere presence (he didn't like her clothes) was "lowering my coolness." It's unvarnished, awkward and eye-opening.

Borderline hostile

"Working at galleries, I became initiated into the way that the art world wields strategic snobbery to keep people out. And I think it's deliberate and I think it's unnecessary," says Bosker.

Take the wall texts you often see at art museums. While they might be well-intentioned, Bosker believes they're part of an over-emphasis on context .

"For the last 100 years or so, we've been told that what really matters about an artwork is the idea behind it." Bosker says that "art connoisseurs" were very interested in "where an artist went to school, who owns her work, what gallery had shown it, who he slept with" and was surprised by "how little [time they] actually spent discussing the work itself."

Of those wall labels, "I thought they were annoying, like borderline hostile ... they just drove me crazy."

At a recent visit to the Guggenheim, we saw one that included the phrase:

"...practice explores the liminal spaces of human consciousness..."

Bosker shudders. "If I had a dollar for every time someone in the art world used the word 'liminal,'" she laughs. One artist she worked with told her, "'Reading the wall labels is like you're trying to have a conversation with the artwork, but someone keeps interrupting.'"

As a museum guard, Bosker occasionally took the matter into her own hands.

"I would actually try and stand in front of the wall labels so that people wouldn't just fall back on the approved interpretations. They would challenge themselves and really wrestle with their own eye, which is so strong," she says.

Small galleries deliberately keep out the 'schmoes '

If museums make some people feel unwelcome, Bosker learned that small, contemporary art galleries can be even worse. One that we visited in downtown Manhattan was hard to find. That's typical, Bosker explains.

She says a lot of galleries "deliberately ... hide themselves from the general public ... I worked for someone who referred to general public as 'Joe Schmoes' and I think there are a lot of ways to keep out the schmoes, and where you put your gallery is a big one."

Now, to be fair, those galleries are in the business of selling art.

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Gallery owner Robert Dimin likes that Bianca Bosker is unmasking "our opaque art world" with her new book Get the Picture . DIMIN hide caption

Rob Dimin, another gallery owner Bosker worked for, does not refer to the general public as "schmoes" but he does like that his new gallery is tucked away. It's on the second floor of a building with just a small plaque by the entrance.

Dimin's last gallery was a storefront. "You [were] more likely to get people that had no intention or idea about the art or really interested in the art, just maybe kind of stumbling in," he says, "There [were] moments when we were on the street level that people would come in and just have phone conversations on rainy days because it was an open space."

People walking into a gallery to get out of the rain aren't usually interested in buying art. But Dimin admits that the art world is "opaque" and he's glad Bosker is unmasking it. There are parts of it even he doesn't understand.

"Even as an art dealer, it sometimes is confusing," he says, "Like, why is X, Y and Z artists getting acquired by every museum and having these museum shows? What is challenging for a person like me who's been in this business for 10 years, I can only imagine a person not within the industry having more challenges."

How to have a meaningful experience with art

Intentionally confusing, elitist, cloistered. While Bosker's new book likens the art world to a "country club," she says her feelings about art itself haven't been diminished.

"Seeing artists in their studios agonize over the correct color blue, over ... the physics of making something stick, lay and stay, really convinced me that everything we need to have a meaningful experience with art is right in front of us," says Bosker.

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Bianca Bosker takes a close look at a work by Julianne Swartz at the gallery Bienvenu Steinberg & J in New York. Bosker says it's OK to "walk around a sculpture ... just don't touch it." Elizabeth Blair/NPR hide caption

Bianca Bosker takes a close look at a work by Julianne Swartz at the gallery Bienvenu Steinberg & J in New York. Bosker says it's OK to "walk around a sculpture ... just don't touch it."

Here are a few tips she has for readers looking to evade the snobbery:

"My philosophy had always been when I went to a museum ... a scorched earth approach to viewing. I was like, 'You have to see everything. That is how you get your money's worth.'" Bosker says "museum fatigue" is real and compares it to eating everything at an all you can eat buffet. "No wonder you feel a little ill at the end of it."

"If you find one work and you just spend your entire half hour, hour, hour and a half at that piece, you've done it. And I think that that can be oftentimes an even more meaningful experience."

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Don't 'get' art? You might be looking at it wrong

"An artist that I spent time with encouraged me to, in front of an artwork, challenge yourself to notice five things. And those five things don't have to be grandiose, like: 'This is a commentary on masculinity in the Internet age.' It could just be, you know, like this yellow makes me want to touch it." Taking the time to notice those things will help viewers think about the choices an artist has made, Bosker believes.

"I think being around art ultimately helps us widen and expand our definition of what beauty is. And I think beauty ... is that moment when our mind jumps the curb. It can feel uncomfortable, but it also is something that draws us to it. ... It's something that all of us need more of in our life. And art can be the gateway to finding more of it. It doesn't have to happen with the traditionally beautiful artwork."

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Calvin Trillin’s newest collection, “The Lede: Dispatches From a Life in the Press,” is a reminder that there is no one better working in journalism today — or, as Trillin likes to call it, in “the trade” — than him.

Over the last 60 years, Trillin has written about the civil rights movement, race relations, politics, journalism, murders and food. For 15 years, he wrote a long-form narrative every three weeks for the New Yorker; he’s also written shorter reported pieces, comic sketches and doggerel for the Nation, Time and elsewhere.

“The Lede” collects 42 of these pieces, both humorous and serious. As with Trillin’s previous collections — “Killings,” “Jackson, 1964” and others — the book is focused around a theme; in this case, the news biz. He profiles journalists, examines the evolution of newsrooms, pokes fun at pundits. He revisits the year he spent covering the South for Time magazine and examines the question of journalistic objectivity in the face of evil.

“I didn’t pretend that we were covering a struggle in which all sides — the side that thought, for instance, that all American citizens had the right to vote and the side that thought that people who acted on such a belief should have their houses burned down — had an equally compelling case to make.”

His book reminds us not just of his brilliant plying of the trade but also of what the trade once was.

Trillin is a diligent reporter and a subtle writer, and his prose reads as though it were both effortlessly written and carefully, painstakingly crafted. Often, he drops an oddball detail early into a piece (known as a “gold coin”) and then later mentions the detail again and sometimes again, to humorous effect. His comedic timing is impeccable.

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“The Lede” is organized thematically, but individual pieces are not labeled, and so it is only after you get into a comic piece such as “Corrections” or “The 401st” and start chuckling that you begin to realize that nothing in it should be taken seriously. This is not frustrating; it’s a delight.

More serious pieces include homages to departed reporters such as Molly Ivins, Russell Baker and Morley Safer; a retrospective on Trillin’s year covering the Freedom Riders; a profile of Miami Herald cops reporter Edna Buchanan; and an examination of the bizarre time when a mild-mannered film critic for the Dallas Times Herald assumed the persona of a redneck named Joe Bob in order to review trashy slasher movies.

“The Life and Times of Joe Bob Briggs, So Far” is a brilliant piece that weaves themes of newspaper wars, the insular world of Dallas businessmen, the question of honesty and taste in journalism, the fine line between parody and cruelty, and the weird sort of crack-up suffered by the inventor of Joe Bob, a young writer named John Bloom.

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Reading all these pieces together, the reader notices some of Trillin’s habits — not just his use of gold coins and the phrase “the trade” but also his occasional use of anonymous, or, at least, vague sources for some of his best descriptions and observations.

In “The Life and Times,” Trillin points out that the Joe Bob column “presented some special problems. One of them was what people called the Archie Bunker factor — the problem of whether the column is making fun of Joe Bob or of the people Joe Bob makes fun of.”

In “This Story Just Won’t Write,” his recollections of working for Time, he mentions an editor, “a man with an unfortunate shape and a reputation for chasing researchers around his desk, [who] was known, behind his back, as the Horny Avocado.”

And in “Alternatives,” which looks at the evolution of alt-weeklies, two writers who attended a conference looked like “a retired punk rocker and his manager. … For the remainder of the conference, they were referred to as ‘the two gentlemen in costume.’”

These anonymous observations are so apt and witty that the reader could be forgiven for thinking that perhaps the “people” who said these things was actually Trillin himself. He is the man who, after all, once referred to Al Gore as “a man-like object.”

Taken as a whole, “Lede” paints a portrait of a disappearing journalistic world — of newspapers, mostly, but also of magazines. It contains not a whiff of sentimentality; Trillin is too clear-eyed for that. But readers might feel bereft, noting how much has changed in the 60 years since he started writing, how diminished newspapers have become, how robust newspaper wars once were, how many larger-than-life writers have died or moved on. In short, how things used to be in the trade.

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The key to understanding the modern GOP? Its hatred of taxes.

In ‘the power to destroy,’ michael j. graetz shows how the anti-tax movement captured the american right.

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How did the GOP go from being a center-right party epitomized by the likes of Gerald Ford, Bob Dole and George H.W. Bush to an extreme-right party largely incapable of governing and hellbent on political warfare? There are many familiar answers: the rise of conservative media ; the increasing import of an evangelical Christian base that craves hypermasculine, bellicose leadership ; the role of structural factors tied to primary elections and geographic polarization. Michael J. Graetz’s “ The Power to Destroy: How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America ” provides a comprehensive account of another key factor.

Graetz narrates how, beginning in the late 1970s, activists discovered the political potency of railing against taxes. As he shows, that issue would slowly become the main glue holding together various factions of the GOP. Graetz’s book is concise and well written, and spotlights key players who don’t always receive as much credit (or blame) for the state of the party as they deserve. The story it tells is key to understanding the modern GOP, the $34 trillion national debt and the dysfunction rampant in our political system.

One of the key benefits of “The Power to Destroy” is its comprehensive coverage of the roots of the anti-tax movement and its takeover of the GOP. Popular memory tells a simple story: Economist Arthur Laffer drew his famous curve depicting the relationship between income tax levels and government revenue on a cocktail napkin for Dick Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, opening up the tantalizing possibility that tax cuts might pay for themselves by increasing economic productivity. Laffer and other key boosters, like the Wall Street Journal’s Jude Wanniski, won over Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), and Kemp’s eponymous tax cuts eventually became the centerpiece of Ronald Reagan’s agenda. But the rise of “supply-side economics” isn’t the only reason the GOP went from championing fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets to worshiping tax cuts.

Instead, the real story starts, as Graetz explains, with Howard Jarvis, a right-wing political gadfly in California who finally hit upon a political moment auspicious for advancing his anti-tax, anti-government agenda. Jarvis was “never taken seriously in California politics” before 1978, when he ignited the anti-tax wave by successfully shepherding Proposition 13 — which limited property taxes — to passage, an event that sent shock waves throughout American politics.

Though most of the factors driving the approval of Proposition 13 were local, politicians saw the result as a sign that voters were against government programs and the taxes that financed them. Republicans also started to grasp that tax cuts were the way out of their “Scrooge” problem. For decades, they had screamed about fiscal responsibility while Democrats promised new programs to make Americans’ lives easier. Tax cuts gave them something enticing to offer voters instead.

The other pivotal forgotten episode that Graetz spotlights is a 1978 uprising among evangelical Christians over new IRS rules designed to ensure that segregated private schools did not receive tax exemptions. The situation stemmed from a federal court ruling and had been percolating throughout the 1970s. In fact, it was Richard M. Nixon’s IRS that had initially announced that it would deny the exemptions and tax deductions for charitable contributions to segregated private schools. But when Jimmy Carter’s IRS commissioner issued stricter rules on what constituted desegregation — imperiling many Southern religious schools — conservative evangelicals erupted. The Rev. Jerry Falwell told viewers of his “Old Time Gospel Hour”: “The Infernal Revenue Service has been questioning the taxability, the exempt status of Christian schools. Why? Because they’re motivated by the devil in this business, that’s why.”

Why are so many Americans poor? Because we allow it.

The ensuing uproar was enormous, including 150,000 comments on the rule changes and four days of angry public hearings. It enabled conservative political operatives Paul Weyrich and Richard Viguerie to coax leading conservative religious leaders, especially Falwell, into launching a political crusade. Reagan denounced the IRS move, and the episode helped bring religious conservatives into a Republican Party that increasingly loathed taxes and championed conservative Christian values.

Once Graetz establishes the roots of the anti-tax movement, the story becomes a more typical one of high-level politics, tracing the changes in tax policy over 40 years and explaining their implications. The most critical moments in this story come in the early 1990s. First, George H.W. Bush broke his famous “read my lips, no new taxes” vow in 1990 and then went down to defeat in 1992. Soon after, Bill Clinton raised taxes and witnessed his party’s evisceration in the 1994 midterm elections — Democrats lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years. These losses solidified the idea that supporting tax cuts was political gold, while increasing taxes promised doom.

That newly received political wisdom broke the back of whatever traditional budget-balancing conservatism remained in the GOP. Dole had spearheaded a tax increase in 1982 after Reagan’s seminal 1981 tax cuts produced an alarming revenue shortage. He also had refused to sign Americans for Tax Reform’s anti-tax pledge when he ran for president in 1988. But before launching his 1996 campaign, he signed the pledge. Dole knew he couldn’t capture the nomination if he refused. He even made a tax cut the centerpiece of his campaign.

Henceforth, Republicans wouldn’t meet a tax cut they didn’t like and would steadfastly refuse to increase taxes even in wartime or moments of crisis, when legislators had traditionally done so to cover costs. But Graetz also highlights how Democrats, too, bought into the new politics, gradually coming around to opposing any new taxes on all but the super-wealthy.

Graetz’s narrative spotlights three crucial figures: activist Grover Norquist, who dreamed up the anti-tax pledge; Rep. Newt Gingrich, who grasped the value of taxes as an issue for Republicans; and Rush Limbaugh, who championed their views of taxation over the airwaves. The latter two are major figures in every account of the rise of the more extremely right-wing GOP, but Graetz’s insertion of Norquist into the narrative is crucial. While the activist is well known in political circles, he’s far less recognizable to average Americans than Gingrich or Limbaugh is. Nonetheless, his pledge helped create and enforce the new Republican orthodoxy, and his efforts brought together social and economic conservatives.

Graetz illuminates how savvy framing and political organizing by the anti-tax movement changed how the public perceived taxes, especially the estate tax, which it successfully rebranded as the “death tax.” That linguistic shift, along with the selection of sympathetic figures to be the faces of the push, generated broad popular opposition to the tax, despite it affecting only the wealthiest of the wealthy.

Graetz closes by discussing the myriad and negative impacts of 40 years of never-ending tax cuts combined with an unwillingness to cut spending or programs. He points out that this means average Americans essentially pay a hidden tax to cover interest payments necessitated by deficit spending that has resulted from tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

There are some small flaws in “The Power to Destroy”: It’s clear that Graetz abhors the anti-tax movement and its impact, and scorns some of the key players he spotlights, which may prompt some to dismiss the book as a political hatchet job — though it’s not. More important, the book loses a bit of focus once he turns the spotlight to attacks on the estate tax and Republicans’ demonization of the IRS in the 2000s. His brief coverage of individual tax battles sometimes leaves readers wanting more on the debates within administrations and among legislators. Similarly, the narrative would have benefited from a more detailed discussion of why the balanced-budget conservatives didn’t fight back harder as their party got overtaken by anti-tax zealots.

But those are minor quibbles. “The Power to Destroy” belongs in the growing pantheon of books that help us understand how the GOP became what it is today. It’s also an essential resource for understanding the fiscal storm clouds that Graetz sees on the horizon.

The Power to Destroy

How the Antitax Movement Hijacked America

By Michael J. Graetz

Princeton University Press. 359 pp. $29.95

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