Robert H. Frank's book Falling Behind is a short, lucid and compelling account of what's happening with the middle class” (Alexander Kemestrios Ben). That's what an Amazon.com reviewer commented about Frank's book Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Harms the Middle Class. In order to engage readers and support their ideas, most argumentative nonfiction books use statistics, logical reasoning, personal anecdotes, and real-life examples. While all of these strategies should make for an interesting and compelling argument, the question is not how interesting the book is, but rather whether or not it is a quality argumentative nonfiction book ? Before answering this question, we first need to think about what constitutes a quality argumentative nonfiction book. A quality argumentative nonfiction book should engage readers with entertaining and unique ideas, as well as well-explained and simplified ideas that are easy for the audience to understand. By these standards, Falling Behind is in part a quality argumentative nonfiction book because, while it fully meets the criterion of having entertaining and unique ideas, it only partially meets the criterion of having well-written ideas. explained and simplified. In addition to being "the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management," Robert H. Frank is also "co-director of the Paduano Seminar on Business Ethics at the Stern NYU School of Business” (“Faculty and Research”). . He earned a “BS in Mathematics from Georgia Tech” and “an MS in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Economics” from the University of California, Berkeley (“Faculty and Research”). Frank has written and co-authored numerous books, as well as various...... middle of paper ......zon.com. Amazon, 2014. Web. February 10, 2014. “Falling behind: how rising inequality is harming the middle class.” » Good reading. Goodreads, 2014. Web. February 10, 2014. Finn, Daniel. “Smart to one, stupid to all.” Commonwealth 135.5 (2008): 22+. Academic OneFile. Internet. February 6, 2014 Frank, Robert H. Falling Behind: How Rising Inequality Hurts the Middle Class. Berkeley: University of California, 2007. Print. Gross, Daniel. “Your neighbor’s hideout.” NYTimes.com. Ed. André Rosenthal. New York Times, August 5, 2007. Web. February 6, 2014. “Herpangina” MedlinePlus. US National Library of Medicine, February 3, 2014. Web. February 6, 2014 “Robert H. Frank.” Contemporary authors online. Detroit: Gale, 2013. Gale biography in context. Internet. February 5, 2014. Whaley, Mary. “Falling behind: How rising inequality is harming the middle class.” Booklist July 1, 2007: 15. EBSCO Academic Search Premier. Internet. February 6. 2014.