What's the Matter with White People?: Why We Long for a Golden Age That Never Was
Autor Joan Walshen Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 aug 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781118141069
ISBN-10: 1118141067
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Wiley (TP)
Colecția John Wiley &Sons
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
ISBN-10: 1118141067
Pagini: 278
Dimensiuni: 157 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Wiley (TP)
Colecția John Wiley &Sons
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
Public țintă
The top of the current affairs list is dominated by three kinds of authors: people with their own national broadcast, people who are employed by a national broadcast, and people who are the most popular writer at their national publication. Joan Walsh, as an MSNBC political analyst and front page columnist for Salon is two of those. Her columns and appearances during the pub window will drive consumers to online and physical accounts looking for the book.Descriere
One of America′s most popular online columnists asks "Which came first: the class war or the culture war?" "In this wonderfully insightful book, Joan Walsh shows how America built a large and vibrant (although mostly white) middle class that fueled the greatest economic boom in history and made a reality of the American dream. Hers is the story of postwar America told through a working class New York Irish Catholic family whose political divisions mirrored the nation′s. Moving and powerful, her account will help people of all races think through how we can build a just and prosperous multiracial America."
Robert B. Reich
"A brilliant and illuminating book about America since the upheavals of the ′60s and ′70s. What′s the Matter with White People? is about the heart and soul of America, from our Founding Fathers to Hillary and Barack.It′s about our middle class, which so recently flourished, and how it has been injured and diminished almost beyond repair by greed and racist fear–mongering. It′s about America′s greatness and delusion, the betrayal of the working class, and the fragmentation of the Democratic party. It′s about how Walsh′s own Irish Catholic family from New York was treated, responded and fared in the years between Richard Nixon and Barack Obama Walsh writes with passion, precision, and insight into how racism has made such a bold public comeback. Her book was heaven for a political junkie like me, somehow managing to be painful and exhilarating at the same time."
Anne Lamott
"Joan Walsh′s reflections and observations from her personal journey as an Irish Catholic daughter of a Northeastern blue collar family provide a unique window into the hearts, aspirations, anguish, anger, fears, and pride of white working class voters during the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. No one can properly understand current class politics and race relations in America unless they′ve read this book."
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Robert B. Reich
"A brilliant and illuminating book about America since the upheavals of the ′60s and ′70s. What′s the Matter with White People? is about the heart and soul of America, from our Founding Fathers to Hillary and Barack.It′s about our middle class, which so recently flourished, and how it has been injured and diminished almost beyond repair by greed and racist fear–mongering. It′s about America′s greatness and delusion, the betrayal of the working class, and the fragmentation of the Democratic party. It′s about how Walsh′s own Irish Catholic family from New York was treated, responded and fared in the years between Richard Nixon and Barack Obama Walsh writes with passion, precision, and insight into how racism has made such a bold public comeback. Her book was heaven for a political junkie like me, somehow managing to be painful and exhilarating at the same time."
Anne Lamott
"Joan Walsh′s reflections and observations from her personal journey as an Irish Catholic daughter of a Northeastern blue collar family provide a unique window into the hearts, aspirations, anguish, anger, fears, and pride of white working class voters during the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. No one can properly understand current class politics and race relations in America unless they′ve read this book."
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
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One of America′s most popular online columnists asks "Which came first: the class war or the culture war?" "In this wonderfully insightful book, Joan Walsh shows how America built a large and vibrant (although mostly white) middle class that fueled the greatest economic boom in history and made a reality of the American dream. Hers is the story of postwar America told through a working class New York Irish Catholic family whose political divisions mirrored the nation′s. Moving and powerful, her account will help people of all races think through how we can build a just and prosperous multiracial America."
Robert B. Reich
"A brilliant and illuminating book about America since the upheavals of the ′60s and ′70s. What′s the Matter with White People? is about the heart and soul of America, from our Founding Fathers to Hillary and Barack.It′s about our middle class, which so recently flourished, and how it has been injured and diminished almost beyond repair by greed and racist fear–mongering. It′s about America′s greatness and delusion, the betrayal of the working class, and the fragmentation of the Democratic party. It′s about how Walsh′s own Irish Catholic family from New York was treated, responded and fared in the years between Richard Nixon and Barack Obama Walsh writes with passion, precision, and insight into how racism has made such a bold public comeback. Her book was heaven for a political junkie like me, somehow managing to be painful and exhilarating at the same time."
Anne Lamott
"Joan Walsh′s reflections and observations from her personal journey as an Irish Catholic daughter of a Northeastern blue collar family provide a unique window into the hearts, aspirations, anguish, anger, fears, and pride of white working class voters during the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. No one can properly understand current class politics and race relations in America unless they′ve read this book."
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Robert B. Reich
"A brilliant and illuminating book about America since the upheavals of the ′60s and ′70s. What′s the Matter with White People? is about the heart and soul of America, from our Founding Fathers to Hillary and Barack.It′s about our middle class, which so recently flourished, and how it has been injured and diminished almost beyond repair by greed and racist fear–mongering. It′s about America′s greatness and delusion, the betrayal of the working class, and the fragmentation of the Democratic party. It′s about how Walsh′s own Irish Catholic family from New York was treated, responded and fared in the years between Richard Nixon and Barack Obama Walsh writes with passion, precision, and insight into how racism has made such a bold public comeback. Her book was heaven for a political junkie like me, somehow managing to be painful and exhilarating at the same time."
Anne Lamott
"Joan Walsh′s reflections and observations from her personal journey as an Irish Catholic daughter of a Northeastern blue collar family provide a unique window into the hearts, aspirations, anguish, anger, fears, and pride of white working class voters during the twentieth and twenty–first centuries. No one can properly understand current class politics and race relations in America unless they′ve read this book."
Dr. Clarence B. Jones
Cuprins
Preface vii
Introduction 1
Part I Fact–Checking a Fractured Irish Fairy Tale 15
Part II Growing Up in Nixonland 61
Part III The Loneliness of the Reagan–Era Do–Gooder 117
Part IV Some of My Best Presidents Are Black 177
Part V What s the Matter with White People? 235
Acknowledgments 255
Index 261
Introduction 1
Part I Fact–Checking a Fractured Irish Fairy Tale 15
Part II Growing Up in Nixonland 61
Part III The Loneliness of the Reagan–Era Do–Gooder 117
Part IV Some of My Best Presidents Are Black 177
Part V What s the Matter with White People? 235
Acknowledgments 255
Index 261
Recenzii
"...thrilling and moving family and political memoir that will help those who read it decipher the political spectacle that will unfold over the next two months." (The San Francisco Chronicle, August 2012)
Notă biografică
Joni grew up in Minnesota and South Dakota, but now lives in Nebraska. She graduated from the U. of Nebraska with a BFA in Fiction Writing. She also has an MA degree in Communications from U. of So. Dak. She has spent most of her life teaching math and English at the middle school through college level. Joni, also tutors privately. She has one son, Ross, who shares her love for writing. Besides writing, Joni spends time gardening, attending to political interests, and various other reading and social clubs when her manager, Zooey Tunes, allows. Tunes is a long haired cat, who looks like a wooly raccoon, and whom Joni calls affectionately, The Varmint.