Bibliograph

Rendezvous with oblivion, reports from a sinking society, Thomas Frank

Type

Label

Rendezvous with oblivion, reports from a sinking society, Thomas Frank

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rendezvous with oblivion

Oclc number

1007751107

Responsibility statement

Thomas Frank

Sub title

reports from a sinking society

Summary

"What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, America's winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country? In this collection of interlocking essays, Thomas Frank takes us on a wide-ranging tour through present-day America, showing us a society in the late stages of disintegration and describing the worlds of both the winners and the losers."--Jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction : The first shall be first -- Part 1: Many vibrant mansions -- Servile disobedience -- The architecture of inequality -- Home of the whopper -- Meet the DYKWIAs -- Dead end on shakin' street -- Part 2: Too smart to fail -- Academy fight song -- A matter of degrees -- Course corrections -- Part 3: The poverty of centrism -- Beltway trifecta -- The animatronic presidency -- Bully pulpit -- The powers that were -- Part 4: The explosion -- Why millions of ordinary Americans support Donald Trump -- Rendezvous with oblivion -- How the Democrats could win again, if they wanted -- Main Street USA -- America made great again

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