American Stories : Tales of Hope and Anger.
From the desolate coal-mining hollers of West Virginia to Washington, DC's ghettos and the Mormon communities of Utah, this engrossing journalistic account travels the country with unprecedented scope to grapple with political issues and to tell the stories of the players, the hopeful true beli...
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University of Queensland Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; About the Author; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; 1 Winning the race; 2 Dancing with the city; 3 Tea Party; 4 America's Muslims and the mosque at Ground Zero; 5 Wild politics; 6 Arizona brewing
- Guns, God and Mexicans; 7 The whole enchilada; 8 Little Havana
- Big influence; 9 'Too close to the United States, not close enough to God'; 10 Elvis has left the building; 11 California screaming; 12 Tales from the Motor City; 13 West Virginia
- Songs in the hollers; 14 Obamacare; 15 Mitt Romney's magic underpants; 16 'It's still the economy, stupid'; 17 Election 2012; Epilogue.