The acclaimed labor lawyer and prizewinning author Thomas Geoghegan asks: where
are we better off?America or Europe? In an idiosyncratic, entertaining
travelogue that plays on public policy, Geoghegan asks what our lives would be
like if we lived them as Europeans. Sneaking out of his workaholic American
life, he takes five trips where he tries to understand so-called European
socialism firsthand. Though he first tries France (which has become a rhetorical
stand-in for the continent as a whole in many Americans' minds), he eventually
ventures into Germany to see what some call the "boring" Europe. There he finds
the true "other"?an economic model with more bottom-up worker