Author: Inez Nellie Canfield McFee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Outlines, Devices and Recreations in United States Geography
What's the Matter with Kansas?
Author: Thomas Frank
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1429900326
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 1429900326
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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
The Five Flirting Styles
Author: Jeffrey Hall
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037389273X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Shows those looking for love how to identify their natural flirting style and use it to flirt smarter and attract the best person for them.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 037389273X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Shows those looking for love how to identify their natural flirting style and use it to flirt smarter and attract the best person for them.
An Outline of American History for Use in High Schools
Author: Jonas Viles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
The Kansas Journey
Author: Jennie A. Chinn
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423624130
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423624130
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Topical Outline of the Courses in Constitutional and Political History of the United States Given at Harvard College in the Academic Year 1887-88
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Topical Outline of the Courses in Constitutional and Political History of the United States Given at Harvard College in the Academic Year 1886-87
Author: Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
In Cold Blood
Author: Truman Capote
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812994388
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0812994388
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description