Living blue in the red states /
Shows what politically progressive creative writers were feeling in the wake of George W Bush's re-election. This book presents the work of essayists who look beyond the passions of the moment - the war in Iraq, the rallying of the Right around social issues, the Democrats' failure in 2004...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2007.
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| Serie: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=202035 |
Sommario:
- Introduction / David Starkey
- Part 1. West
- Another Way of Saying / Sherry Simpson
- Hauling Water / Frank Soos
- Red Politics and Blue in Wyoming / David Romtvedt
- Running in the Red/ Jennifer Sinor
- Part 2. Midwest
- Election Season / Lee Martin
- Trapping / Jonis Agee
- Here Was Johnny / Steve Heller
- America, Where's Your Sense of Humor? / Michael J. Rosen
- Control Issues / Robin Hemley
- A Campaign That Failed / Deb Olin Unferth
- Part 3. South
- Playing Debussy in the Heart of Dixie / David Case
- The Kreskin Effect / Jim Peterson
- Faith / John Lane
- How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Swamp in South Carolina / Gilbert Allen
- Rescue the Drowning, Tie Your Shoe-Strings / Sidney Burris
- P Is For ... / Stephen Corey
- Minority within Minority : Dynamics of Race and Culture in the New South / Anthony Kellman
- Theater of Operations / Donald Morrill
- The World Loves New Orleans, but America Has Not Come to Its Rescue / Mona Lisa Saloy
- Louisiana's New Political Landscape / Angus Woodward
- Summertime / David Starkey
- Afterword : Writing the Personal Political Essay / David Starkey.