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The moderate imagination : the political thought of John Updike and the decline of New Deal liberalism /

"One of the most pressing questions to arise in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election concerned the white working class's so-called "abandonment" of the Democratic Party, especially in the Rust Belt, and their surprising embrace of Donald Trump. To better understand...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fromer, Yoav (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The man in the middle
  • The liberal education of John Updike
  • The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents
  • Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run
  • Sleeping together, bowling alone: Couples and the decline of civic engagement
  • Things don't mix: Rabbit redux and the unraveling of postwar liberalism
  • Conclusion: Liberalism redux.