Falling Behind by Robert Frank Essay -- Falling Behind, Robert Frank

Robert H. Franks withstand Falling Behind is a short, lucid, and compelling account of what is breathing out on with the middle class(Alexander Kemestrios Ben). That is what one reviewer on Amazon.com commented about Franks book Falling Behind How Rising Inequality Harms the eye Class. In order to move readers and support their ideas, most eristic nonfiction books use statistics, logical reasoning, personal anecdotes, and real-life examples. While all of these strategies such as should leave an interesting and compelling argument, the question is not of how interesting the book is, but rather is it or is it not a quality argumentative nonfiction book? Before answering that question, we must first consider what makes a quality argumentative nonfiction book. A quality argumentative nonfiction book should engage readers with entertaining and unique ideas and also have well-explained and simplified ideas that are easy for the audience to understand. By these standards, Falling Behi nd is partially a quality argumentative nonfiction book because, although it fully meets the criterion of having entertaining and unique ideas, it only partially meets the criterion of having well-explained and simplified ideas.In addition to being the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of direction and Professor of Economics at Cornells Johnson Graduate School of Management, Robert H. Frank is also the co-director of the Paduano Seminar in business ethics at NYUs Stern School of seam(Faculty and Research). He earned a B.S. in mathematics from Georgia Tech and an M.A. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley (Faculty and Research). Frank has written and cowritten many books, as well as various... ...zon.com. Amazon, 2014. Web. 10 Feb. 2014.Falling Behind How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class. Goodreads. Goodreads, 2014. Web. 10 Feb. 2014.Finn, Daniel. Smart for One, Dumb for All. Commonweal 135.5 (2008) 22+. Academic OneFile. Web. 6 Feb. 2014Frank, Robert H. Falling Behind How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class. Berkeley University of California, 2007. Print.Gross, Daniel. Thy Neighbors Stash. NYTimes.com. Ed. Andrew Rosenthal. New York Times, 5 Aug. 2007. Web. 6 Feb. 2014.Herpangina MedlinePlus. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 3 Feb. 2014. Web. 6 Feb. 2014Robert H. Frank. Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit Gale, 2013. Gale Biography In Context. Web. 5 Feb. 2014.Whaley, Mary. Falling Behind How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class. Booklist 1 July 2007 15. EBSCO Academic Search Premier. Web. 6 Feb. 2014.