Is Omarosa credible? Before reading this book I would have said no. Having read this fascinating a account of her 15 year association with DJT including a year inside his administration, I say I'm fairly sure she is. She is also ambitious and possibly narcissistic, but those characteristics alone don't invalidate her experiences nor her assertion that she has "woken up" from her Trump induced cloud wherein she participated in the most corrupt presidency in modern times.

The book is straightforward and well written. Omarosa manages to weave her own personal journey while retelling events of Trump's first year in the white house with often chilling behind the scenes detail. She also (whether consciously or not) relays a sense of loss regarding what she perceives as the mental and physical demise of a man she once respected and sought to emulate.

Overall, this book was much better than I expected; it is worth your time and attention.

Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly achieved classic status for its identification of forces then only beginning to reshape our economy, geography, and workplace. Weaving story-telling with original research, Richard Florida identified a fundamental shift linking a host of seemingly unrelated changes in American society: the growing importance of creativity in people's work lives and the emergence of a class of people unified by their engagement in creative work. Millions of us were beginning to work and live much as creative types like artists and scientists always had, Florida observed, and this Creative Class was determining how the workplace was organized, what companies would prosper or go bankrupt, and even which cities would thrive.

In The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited, Florida further refines his occupational, demographic, psychological, and economic profile of the Creative Class, incorporates a decade of research, and adds five new chapters covering the global effects of the Creative Class and exploring the factors that shape "quality of place" in our changing cities and suburbs.

Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and distortionary. Despite this evidence, politicians still choose to use these policies to claim credit for attracting investment. Thus, while fiscal incentives are economically inefficient, they pose an effective pandering strategy for politicians. Using original surveys of voters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom as well as data on incentive use by politicians in the US, Vietnam and Russia, this book provides compelling evidence for the use of fiscal incentives for political gain and shows how such pandering appears to be associated with growing economic inequality. As national and subnational governments surrender valuable tax revenue to attract businesses in the vain hope of long-term economic growth, they are left with fiscal shortfalls that have been filled through regressive sales taxes, police fines and penalties, and cuts to public education.