A review by nevclue
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town by Brian Alexander

3.0

Detailed account of the rise and fall of the glass company Anchor Hocking in Lancaster, Ohio. I came into this knowing practically nothing about glass making, Ohio, or private equity. This lays out a very convincing case that the corporate raiding, private equity, and a Friedman-esque blind pursuit of short term profit threw a once prosperous town into the drug ridden, left behind cautionary tale that we see so much of in the news right now.

Unfortunately, for all I found the arguments of the book fascinating, I really struggled to finish this. I definitely should not have listened to this on tape. This is a fact, statistic, and people heavy book and I'm terrible at absorbing that information through listening rather than reading. So I'm not sure if I found this such a slog because the format was all wrong for me or if this really is unnecessarily dry.