Bad review.

• Author: Mathews, Donald R.
• Position: Letters to the Editor - Letter to the editor

I am writing to tell you why I am very disappointed in Plutocrats, by Chrystia Freeland, which Jake Whitney reviewed in the March issue. On the basis of that review, as well as the title of the book, I ordered a copy.

But Whitney did not point out many of the book's failures. Freeland uses a mass of statistics that could hardly be understood by the ordinary reader. She packs each paragraph with so many figures and percentages that it's difficult to read.

The subtitle of the book is The Rise...