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Chargement... The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populismpar Thomas Frank
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I'm not sure how his head didn't explode from cognitive dissonance as he wrote this book. I am well over half-way done, and I'm trying to connect my own experiences with politics (beginning in the late 70s during the Carter era) to his writing. I can't. I realize that he's focussed on Populism, but heck no. I was uncertain when starting this book exactly what I was getting into, but this book was a breath of fresh air for me. I'll I'd been hearing about was Trump's populist revolution and I was really getting tired of thinking of them as populist. The author of this book agrees. He argues Trumpism is an anti-populist movement mascarading as populist. The book takes a look at the last 100 years of US history and tracks the media reactions to populism throughout the 20th century. I found Mr. Frank's perspective refreshing and his argument and evidence convincing. If you read one book about populism this is a great choice. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"From the prophetic author of the now-classic What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most important-and misunderstood-movement of our time. Rarely does a work of history contain startling implications for the present, but in The People, No Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about populism is wrong. Today "populism" is seen as a frightening thing, a term pundits use to describe the racist philosophy of Donald Trump and European extremists. But this is a mistake. The real story of populism is an account of enlightenment and liberation; it is the story of American democracy itself, of its ever-widening promise of a decent life for all. Taking us from the tumultuous 1890s, when the radical left-wing Populist Party-the biggest mass movement in American history-fought Gilded Age plutocrats to the reformers' great triumphs under Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, Frank reminds us how much we owe to the populist ethos. Frank also shows that elitist groups have reliably detested populism, lashing out at working-class concerns. The anti-populist vituperations by the Washington centrists of today are only the latest expression. Frank pummels the elites, revisits the movement's provocative politics, and declares true populism to be the language of promise and optimism. The People, No is a ringing affirmation of a movement that, Frank shows us, is not the problem of our times, but the solution for what ails us"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I en valgkamp der elitene brukte rekordmengder penger og andre ressurser for å hindre folk og demokratiet, finner vi lærestykker for dagens politiske kamper.