Beyond Outrage, the new eBook by Robert B. Reich, is the best Occupy Wall Street book the Occupiers never made. For a movement criticized for being unorganized and without a clear message, Reich's Outrage serves to crystalize their concerns with the gravitas of a respected economist and the clarity of a man not stoned and drumming on a bongo in Zuccotti Park. His eBook is also for the folks on the sidelines. "You don't have to be an Occupier," he writes, "to conclude the Street is still out of control."

Reich hit the books at Dartmouth, Yale, and Oxford. He became the Secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration, and is now a longstanding political and economic commentator. (He's also got a funny side.) That is to say: He isn't just a personality paying lip service to a shallow doctrine. He has credentials to back his convictions, and in Beyond Outrage his convictions are brimming with light-bulb moments.

Lesson one: Under Republican President Eisenhower, the top marginal income tax rate was ninety-one percent. This past year, Mitt Romney paid fourteen percent on his twenty-plus million-dollar earnings. Somewhere in Omaha, Warren Buffett is endlessly sighing.

Lesson two: Unemployment. The jobs we lost in the recession paid between $19.05 and $31.40 an hour. The jobs we've gained since? They average $9.03 to $12.91 an hour.

The lessons go on, but the point remains: When these fishy factoids stand alone, they are undoubtedly a cause for alarm. Brought together, they're a cause for outrage.

Even a scratched Adele album doesn't sound as depressing as our nation's broken record: Congress is gridlocked. The people are frustrated. The zeitgeist of post-recession America is an angry one. In political cartoons, steam is blowing from our ears and our eyes are bloodshot and bemused. We get it! In a country where politics is controlled by purse strings, people have every right to be fed up. But anger only begets anger. Reich relays a long-awaited message of hope. The anger is surmountable, he argues, and must be in order to realize change. Beyond Outrage lays the groundwork to get us there.