Blue State Blues

Author : David Slavitt
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780819568069
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue State Blues written by David Slavitt and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political neophyte challenges the status quo or How a Cranky Conservative Launched a Campaign and Found Himself the Liberal Candidate (and Still Lost)

Author : Martha Bayne
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1948742071
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red State Blues written by Martha Bayne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been made of the 2016 electoral flip of traditionally Democratic states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to tip Donald Trump into the presidency. Countless think pieces have explored this newfound exotic constituency of blue voters who swung red. But what about those who remain true blue? Red State Blues speaks to the lived experience of progressives, activists, and ordinary Democrats pushing back against simplistic narratives of the Midwest as "Trump Country." They've been there all along, and as the essays in this collection demonstrate, they're not leaving anytime soon. With contributions by journalist and scholar Sarah Kendzior, Kenyon College president Sean Decatur, Pittsburgh city councilman Dan Gilman, and more.

Author : Matt Grossmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476910
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red State Blues written by Matt Grossmann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite winning control of twenty-four new state governments since 1992, Republicans have failed to enact policies that substantially advance conservative goals. This book offers the first systematic assessment of the geography and consequences of Republican ascendance in the states and yields important lessons for both liberals and conservatives.

Author : Richard E Glick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781087928838
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Blue State Blues written by Richard E Glick and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MATHEMATICAL CERTAINTY IS DEMOCRAT STATE COUNTY MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCIES LEADING TO TAX LIEN REAL ESTATE SEIZURES FOR UNIONIZED PUBLIC WORKER PAY HOLIDAYS VACATIONS HEALTHCARE PENSIONS WHO VOTE ONLY FOR DEMOCRATS

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839761385
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hard Road to Renewal written by Stuart Hall and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stuart Hall's writings on the political impact of Margaret Thatcher have established him as the most prescient and insightful analyst of contemporary Conservatism Collected here for the first time with a new introduction, these essays show how Thatcher has exploited discontent with Labour's record in office and with aspects of the welfare state to devise a potent authoritarian, populist ideology. Hall's critical approach is elaborated here in essays on the formation of the SDP, inner city riots, the Falklands War and the signficance of Antonio Gramsci. He suggests that Thatcherism is skillfully employing the restless and individualistic dynamic of consumer capitalism to promote a swingeing programme of 'regressive modernization'. The Hard Road to Renewal is as concerned with elaborating a new politics for the Left as it is with the project of the Right. Hall insists that the Left can no longer trade on inherited politics and tradition. Socialists today must be as radical as modernity itself. Valuable pointers to a new politics are identified in the experience of feminism, the campaigns of the GLC and the world-wide response to Band Aid.

Author : Martha Bayne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948742061
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red State Blues written by Martha Bayne and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been made of the 2016 electoral flip of traditionally Democratic states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio to tip Donald Trump into the presidency. Countless think pieces have explored this newfound exotic constituency of blue voters who swung red. But what about those who remain true blue? Red State Blues speaks to the lived experience of progressives, activists, and ordinary Democrats pushing back against simplistic narratives of the Midwest as "Trump Country." They've been there all along, and as the essays in this collection demonstrate, they're not leaving anytime soon. With contributions by journalist and scholar Sarah Kendzior, Kenyon College president Sean Decatur, Pittsburgh city councilman Dan Gilman, and more.

Author : Andrew Gelman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140083211X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State written by Andrew Gelman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans who vote based on God, guns, and gays; and elitist blue-state Democrats woefully out of touch with heartland values. With wit and prodigious number crunching, Andrew Gelman debunks these and other political myths. This expanded edition includes new data and easy-to-read graphics explaining the 2008 election. Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State is a must-read for anyone seeking to make sense of today's fractured political landscape.

Author : Justin Krebs
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589694
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue in a Red State written by Justin Krebs and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine if you felt out of step with every other member of the parent association at your kid’s school, your quilting circle, or even your workout group. What if casual conversations revolved around Fox News and the decline of American values? How would you feel if you were afraid to put a political bumper sticker on your car or had to think twice about what liberal posts you liked on Facebook? These are just some of the experiences shared by liberals across twenty states and five time zones who tell their stories with honesty, warmth, and humor. Most of us have to “talk across the aisle” once or twice a year—when we’re seated next to our conservative out-of-town uncle at Thanksgiving, say. But millions of self- identified liberals live in cities and towns—particularly away from the East and West Coasts—where they are regularly outnumbered and outvoted by conservatives. In this uplifting and completely original book, Justin Krebs, the founder of the national Living Liberally network, speaks with and tells the stories of atheists, vegetarians, environmentalists, pacifists, and old-fashioned liberals—a term he is intent on rehabilitating—from Texas to Idaho, South Carolina to Alaska. Krebs weaves these stories together to create a provocative and rollicking taxonomy of strategies for living in a diverse society, with lessons for every participant in our great democratic experiment.

Author : Howard R. Ernst
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742573036
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chesapeake Bay Blues written by Howard R. Ernst and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2003-04-02 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chesapeake Bay restoration effort has been touted as the nation's premier environmental restoration program. Yet the Bay and the living systems it supports remain in dismally poor condition, with fisheries in decline and drinking water in danger. This book addresses the Chesapeake Bay as a political problem and reveals how the political process has worked against the interests of science, the public, and environmental advocates all at once. Author Howard Ernst shows that the forces driving environmental degradation are sown deeply into the political soul of America, posing menacing challenges to those fighting to restore large ecosystems like the Chesapeake Bay. The book serves as a political roadmap for the future, suggesting how a different course of policy action is needed to 'Save the Bay.'

Author : Richard J. Ripani
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496801288
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Blue Music written by Richard J. Ripani and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhythm & blues emerged from the African American community in the late 1940s to become the driving force in American popular music over the next half-century. Although sometimes called “doo-wop,” “soul,” “funk,” “urban contemporary,” or “hip-hop,” R&B is actually an umbrella category that includes all of these styles and genres. It is in fact a modern-day incarnation of a musical tradition that stretches back to nineteenth-century America, and even further to African beginnings. The New Blue Music: Changes in Rhythm & Blues, 1950-1999 traces the development of R&B from 1950 to 1999 by closely analyzing the top twenty-five songs of each decade. The music of artists as wide-ranging as Louis Jordan; John Lee Hooker; Ray Charles; James Brown; Earth, Wind & Fire; Michael Jackson; Public Enemy; Mariah Carey; and Usher takes center stage as the author illustrates how R&B has not only retained its traditional core style, but has also experienced a “re-Africanization” over time. By investigating musical elements of form, style, and content in R&B—and offering numerous musical examples—the book shows the connection between R&B and other forms of American popular and religious music, such as spirituals, ragtime, blues, jazz, country, gospel, and rock 'n' roll. With this evidence in hand, the author hypothesizes the existence of an even larger musical “super-genre” which he labels “The New Blue Music.”