
Just about everything is wrong with your life insurance, according to Dacey, unless you have simple term insurance. In this scathing update of his 1963 book of the same name, Dacey, also author of How To Avoid Probate (1965), catalogs the numerous abuses and deceptions he sees being foisted upon an unsuspecting public. Dacey has an inflammatory style ("avaricious industry" and "financial Moloch" are representative epithets), but amply demonstrates, largely from the industry's own sources, how agents strive to sell high-commission cash value policies that leave customers under-insured. His advice: Buy term and invest the difference. While this is a valuable source, it has an enormous amount of detail and is far too repetitious. Careful editing would have made it leaner, if not meaner. Nevertheless, recommended.