Rendezvous with oblivion : reports from a sinking society /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781250293664 1250293669 |