| RENDEZVOUS WITH OBLIVION Reports from a Sinking Society Thomas Frank New York: Metropolitan Books, June 2018 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-250-29366-4 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-250-29366-9 | 228pp. | HC | $25.00 | |
| Introduction: The First Shall Be First | 1 |
| PART 1: MANY VIBRANT MANSIONS | |
| Servile Disobedience | 11 |
| The Architecture of Inequality | 21 |
| Home of the Whopper | 33 |
| Meet the DYKWIAs | 47 |
| Dead End on Shakin' Street | 55 |
| PART 2: TOO SMART TO FAIL | |
| Academy Fight Song | 71 |
| A Matter of Degrees | 91 |
| Course Corrections | 101 |
| PART 3: THE POVERTY OF CENTRISM | |
| Beltway Trifecta | 113 |
| The Animatronic Presidency | 123 |
| Bully Pulpit | 135 |
| The Powers that Were | 145 |
| PART 4: THE EXPLOSION | |
| Why Millions of Ordinary Americans Support Donald Trump | 171 |
| Rendezvous with Oblivion | 181 |
| How the Democrats Could Win Again, If They Wanted | 187 |
| Main Street USA | 193 |
| America Made Great Again | 205 |
| Acknowledgments | 227 |
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