What's the matter with White people : why we long for a golden age that never was /

This book began as a political history of the 60s and 70s, with a particular focus on why Americans have let our nation decline in almost every measurable way since then, and sometimes even cheered on those who engineered that decline. I wanted to tell it the way I saw it growing up, watching many o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walsh, Joan, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, [2012]
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Fact-checking a fractured Irish fairy tale
  • pt. 2. Growing up in Nixonland
  • pt. 3. The loneliness of the Reagan-era do-gooder
  • pt. 4. Some of my best Presidents are Black
  • pt. 5. What's the matter with White people?