Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Published 2004 · 320 pages · 75,000 words · about 5 hours at an average pace · Memoir & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Politics & Society
How hard is Confessions of an Economic Hit Man to read?
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man scores 18 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 25 out of 100
- Economic and political terms. Accessible.
- Sentence structure: 22 out of 100
- Abstraction: 28 out of 100
- Personal narrative illustrating systemic arguments.
- Information density: 40 out of 100
- Moderate. Story-driven.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- Chronological memoir structure.
- Symbolic density: 12 out of 100
- Economic hit man as metaphor for neoimperialism.
- Ironic distance: 15 out of 100
- Confessional tone with systemic critique.
- Resolution withholding: 100 out of 100
- The system continues. The confession is the resolution.
- Structural complexity: 18 out of 100
- Linear memoir with contextual chapters.
How Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is regarded
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man holds a literary regard score of 31 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.