As a child growing up in Massapequa—the Long Island suburb where Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Baldwin were raised—I always viewed my community as patriotic and law-abiding. Ron Kovic, the crippled Vietnam veteran who wrote Born on the Fourth of July, came from Massapequa. So did Peggy Noonan, the Reagan speechwriter. The most popular restaurant in town was a burger joint called (...)
April 10, 2009
Books
Mugged by the Boss
Wage Theft in AmericaWhy Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—and What We Can Do About ItKim BoboThe New Press, $17.95, 336 pp.
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