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Book Synopsis What's the Matter with Kansas? by : Thomas Frank
Download or read book What's the Matter with Kansas? written by Thomas Frank and published by Picador. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of "our most insightful social observers"* cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank turns his eye on what he calls the "thirty-year backlash"—the populist revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. The high point of that backlash is the Republican Party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances: between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests, workers and bosses, populists and right-wingers. In asking "what 's the matter with Kansas?"—how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union—Frank, a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles: Why do so many of us vote against our economic interests? Where's the outrage at corporate manipulators? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? The questions are urgent as well as provocative. Frank answers them by examining pop conservatism—the bestsellers, the radio talk shows, the vicious political combat—and showing how our long culture wars have left us with an electorate far more concerned with their leaders' "values" and down-home qualities than with their stands on hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis—and funny to boot—What's the Matter with Kansas? presents a critical assessment of who we are, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People. *Los Angeles Times
Book Synopsis What's the Matter with Kansas? by : Thomas Frank
Download or read book What's the Matter with Kansas? written by Thomas Frank and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Thomas Frank's best-seller, What's the matter with Kansas? shows how Kansas transformed from an outpost of radicalism to a bastion of hard-core conservatism. Unforgettable characters and their stories shed new light on our nation's political divide.
Book Synopsis Webster's Guide to American History by : Charles Van Doren
Download or read book Webster's Guide to American History written by Charles Van Doren and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 1971 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Republican Campaign Text Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Text Book of the Republican Party by : Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ). National Committee
Download or read book Text Book of the Republican Party written by Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ). National Committee and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis ACTION MANIFESTO OF A MADMAN FOR GOOD by : JAY SHERMAN
Download or read book ACTION MANIFESTO OF A MADMAN FOR GOOD written by JAY SHERMAN and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will emerge when we are all thankful for what we have instead of upset about what we don't is a society that works and does what's best for all its inhabitants. Injustice, racism, evil and all bad energy will become so insignificant, that we will laugh at what a distant memory it was. We have the power. We have always had the power. We must open our eyes, minds and our hearts and get to work. Like the old saying that goes, "doing what we love is like being on vacation everyday," when we start bringing humanity, accountability and truth to ourselves so all of us achieve our dreams, it will be like second nature. We will wonder how we ever got along before.
Book Synopsis What's the Matter with America? by : Thomas Frank
Download or read book What's the Matter with America? written by Thomas Frank and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank here turns his eye on what he calls the 'thirty-year backlash' - the common man's revolt against a supposedly liberal establishment. He charts the Republican party's success in building the most unnatural of alliances- between blue-collar Midwesterners and Wall Street business interests; between workers and bosses; between populists and right-wingers. Taking the state of Kansas as a paradigm, Frank describes how a place famous for its radicalism became one of the most conservative states in the union and, writing as a native Kansan and onetime Republican, seeks to answer some broader American riddles- why do so many of us vote against our economic and social interests? And whatever happened to middle-American progressivism? Frank reveals the true story, showing how voters have been persuaded to elevate 'values' and down-home qualities - lavishly attributed to the current occupant of the White House - above hard questions of policy. A brilliant analysis, and funny to boot, What's the Matter with America? - published in advance of the US Presidential elections - presents a critical assessment of the state of America today, while telling a remarkable story of how a group of frat boys, lawyers, and CEOs came to convince a nation that they spoke on behalf of the People.
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Book Synopsis First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship by : Richard Lachmann
Download or read book First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship written by Richard Lachmann and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why great powers decline, from Spain to the United States The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance, and contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands' similarly short primacy and Britain's far longer era of leadership. Decline in all those cases was not inevitable and did not respond to global capitalist cycles. Rather, decline is the product of elites' success in grabbing control over resources and governmental powers. Not only are ordinary people harmed, but also capitalists become increasingly unable to coordinate their interests and adopt policies and make investments necessary to counter economic and geopolitical competitors elsewhere in the world. Conflicts among elites and challenges by non-elites determine the timing and mold the contours of decline. Lachmann traces the transformation of US politics from an era of elite consensus to present-day paralysis combined with neoliberal plunder, explains the paradox of an American military with an unprecedented technological edge unable to subdue even the weakest enemies, and the consequences of finance's cannibalization of the US economy.
Book Synopsis Whats Ahead Econmp by : Louis Rukeyser
Download or read book Whats Ahead Econmp written by Louis Rukeyser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1985-07-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, What's Ahead for the Economy by Louis Rukeyser provides a revised and updated look at his economic insights. Rukeyser confronts the major economic issues facing the United States in the 1980s and explains how they affect every area, from taxes to common stocks—giving readers valuable information to make make informed decisions.
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Book Synopsis We Are Better Than This by : Edward D. Kleinbard
Download or read book We Are Better Than This written by Edward D. Kleinbard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are Better Than This fundamentally reframes budget debates in the United States. Author Edward D. Kleinbard explains how the public's preoccupation with tax policy alone has obscured any understanding of government's ability to complement the private sector through investment and insurance programs that enhance the general welfare and prosperity of our society at large. He argues that when we choose how government should spend and tax, we open a window into our "fiscal soul," because those choices are the means by which we express the values we cherish and the regard in which we hold our fellow citizens. Though these values are being diminished by short-sighted decisions to starve government, strategic government spending can directly make citizens happier, healthier, and even wealthier. Expertly combining the latest economic research with his insider knowledge of the budget process into a simple yet compelling narrative, he unmasks the tax mythologies and false arguments that too often dominate contemporary discourse about budget policies. Large quantities of comparative data are succinctly distilled to situate the United States among its peer countries, so that readers can judge for themselves whether contemporary budget choices really reflect our aspirational fiscal soul. Kleinbard's presentation takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on economics, finance, law, political science and moral philosophy. He uniquely weaves economic research and moral philosophy together by emphasizing our welfare, not just our national income, and by contrasting the actual beliefs of Adam Smith, a great moral philosopher, with the cartoon version of the man presented by proponents of the most extreme forms of private market triumphalism.
Book Synopsis Strangers in Their Own Land by : Arlie Russell Hochschild
Download or read book Strangers in Their Own Land written by Arlie Russell Hochschild and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country—a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets—among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident—people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children. Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Instead, Hochschild finds lives ripped apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, an elusive American dream—and political choices and views that make sense in the context of their lives. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help us understand what it feels like to live in "red" America. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: why do the people who would seem to benefit most from "liberal" government intervention abhor the very idea?
Book Synopsis Flood Control by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control
Download or read book Flood Control written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Weekly Underwriter by : Alasco Delancey Brigham
Download or read book The Weekly Underwriter written by Alasco Delancey Brigham and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Granite Monthly by : Henry Harrison Metcalf
Download or read book The Granite Monthly written by Henry Harrison Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles on the White Mountains and a map.
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
