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Exurbia Now

The Battleground of American Democracy

By: David Masciotra

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Exurbia Now

The Battleground of American Democracy

By: David Masciotra

The suburbs have become too liberal and diverse for many white American conservatives, so “exurbia”—areas outside the cities and their suburbs—are becoming the staging ground for the radical right extremist insurgency . . . Beyond a fanatical devotion to former president Donald Trump, one of the curious things that united the rank and file of the January 6 insurrectionist mob was that many of them were residents of one of America’s fastest growing residential areas: Exurbia. Home to the likes of Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ohio’s Jim Jordan, big box retailers, chain restaurants, monster trucks, and megachurches, exurbia is becoming America’s greatest political battleground, more important to American politics than urban or rural America. In this brilliant work of political and cultural inquiry, veteran political journalist David Masciotra provides a definitive account of what exurbia is, how it came to be, and how it's transforming American life. Zooming in outside the greater metropolitan area of Chicago—where Masciotra grew up—he shows how exurbia has become a safe space to fly the MAGA flag and romanticize the mores of the pre-civil rights, pre-feminist, pre-gay rights 1950s. But, as Masciotra also shows, reactionary white flight is not the whole story of small-town America. The story often lost is the power and persistence of small-town liberals—people who believe in equality, celebrate diversity, and enroll in movements for justice. Exurbia, as it turns out, is ground zero for the fight over a democracy mightily beleaguered, yet still full of promise, and still worth fighting for. Combining interviews, research, and anecdote—and anchored in personal experience—Exurbia Now delivers a powerful ballad on the state of small-town America, and provides a sense of the fight for democracy, on the ground, in the heartland.

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Melville House

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168589089X

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Mellencamp

American Troubadour

By: David Masciotra

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Mellencamp

American Troubadour

By: David Masciotra

John Mellencamp's numerous hits, awards, and recognitions—including his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame—puts him in such celebrated company as Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Bob Dylan. In Mellencamp, David Masciotra explores the life and career of this important talent, persuasively arguing for his space among the most distinguished songwriters of our time. Beginning with Mellencamp's modest start in Seymour, Indiana, Masciotra details the artist's road to fame, examines his struggles with the music industry, and celebrates the success he found by remaining true to his midwestern roots. With themes that range from small-town life, race, and religion to poverty and the struggles of adulthood, Mellencamp's songs remain central to the social and historical context of contemporary America. Acting as an artistic archivist, he has never forgotten the hardships faced by workers and Black Americans, and in line with his tributes to 1960s rock and Americana folk, he tells a story his audience and his country need to hear. From a cultural critic whose work has also appeared in the Washington Post, Atlantic, and Los Angeles Review of Books, this thoughtful analysis—now with a new foreword describing the author's interview with Mellencamp at his private recording studio in Nashville, Indiana—highlights four decades of the artist's music, showing how it has consistently elevated the dignity of everyday people, and spanned the genres of folk, soul, and rock and roll to amplify the struggle of democracy.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813195586

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9780813195582

I Am Somebody

Why Jesse Jackson Matters

By: David Masciotra

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I Am Somebody

Why Jesse Jackson Matters

By: David Masciotra

There are few figures and leaders of recent American history of greater social and political consequence than Jesse Jackson, and few more relevant for America's current political climate. In the 1960s, Jackson served as a close aide to Dr. Martin Luther King, meeting him on the notorious march to legitimate the American democratic system in Selma. He was there on the day of King's assassination, and continued his political legacy, inspiring a generation of black and Latino politicians and activists, founding the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, and helping to make the Democratic Party more multicultural and progressive with his historic runs for the presidency in the 1980s. In I Am Somebody, David Masciotra argues that Jackson's legacy must be rehabilitated in the history of American politics. Masciotra has had personal access to Jackson for several years, conducting over 100 interviews with the man himself, as well as interviews with a wide variety of elected officials and activists who Jackson has inspired and influenced. It also takes readers inside Jackson's negotiations for the release of hostages and political prisoners in Cuba, Iraq, and several other countries. As Democratic politics sees a return to radicalism and the rise of a new generation of committed advocates of racial and economic justice, I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters is a critical book for understanding where America in the 21st Century has come from and where it is going. Featuring a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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183860426X

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Working on a Dream

The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen

By: David Masciotra

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Working on a Dream

The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen

By: David Masciotra

Working On a Dream is a powerful and engaging study of this songwriter and performer's art. Springsteen has consistently summoned his creative power and artistic vision to indict political developments and demand the cultivation of a more compassionate and progressive society.

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A&C Black

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0826425054

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9780826425058

Mellencamp

American Troubadour

By: David Masciotra

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Mellencamp

American Troubadour

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University Press of Kentucky

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Exurbia Now

The Battleground of American Democracy

By: David Masciotra

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The Battleground of American Democracy

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Working on a Dream

The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen

By: David Masciotra

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The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen

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Metallica's Metallica

By: David Masciotra

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Metallica's Metallica

By: David Masciotra

In 1991, Metallica released their fifth studio album that would become known and beloved around the world as “The Black Album.” Since its release, it has sold 30 million copies, and become a towering monument in the pantheon of rock's greatest records. Readers will get unprecedented insight into the story behind an iconic album from one of the world's most iconic bands through interviews with James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett, Jason Newsted, and “Black Album” producer Bob Rock. Masciotra takes readers into the recording studio, giving them Metallica's account of how their most successful and famous record was born and learned to walk into every radio station and stadium stage around the world. Masciotra not only talks to the band about the making of the album, but also the stories that inspired the songs. Readers will not only learn about “The Black Album,” but they will also gain greater knowledge and familiarity with the men who created it. With direct access to the band, Masciotra offers a fascinating and inspiring account of the creation of one of music's best and best-selling albums.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1628929316

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Systems from Hell

Problem Definition and the Literary Portrayal of Failure in Our Public Policy and Social Institutions

By: David A. Rochefort

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Systems from Hell

Problem Definition and the Literary Portrayal of Failure in Our Public Policy and Social Institutions

By: David A. Rochefort

This book approaches contemporary fiction as a medium for policy advocacy, one whose narrative devices both link it to, and distinguish it from, other forms of public discourse. Using the framework of political agenda setting, David A. Rochefort analyzes the rhetorical function of problem definition played by literary works when they document and characterize social issues while sounding the call for systemic reform. Focusing on a group of noteworthy realist novels by American authors over the past twenty years, this study maintains that fictional narrative is a potentially influential instrument of "empathic policy argument." The book closes by examining the agenda-setting dynamics through which a social problem novel can contribute to the process of policy change.

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State University of New York Press

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I Am Somebody

Why Jesse Jackson Matters

By: David Masciotra

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Why Jesse Jackson Matters

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Rock Star

The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen

By: David R. Shumway

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Rock Star

The Making of Musical Icons from Elvis to Springsteen

By: David R. Shumway

The nature and meaning of rock stardom—celebrities who embody the most important social and cultural conflicts of their era. "All stars are celebrities, but not all celebrities are stars," states David Shumway in the introduction to Rock Star, an informal history of rock stardom. This deceptively simple statement belies the complex definition and meaning of stardom and more specifically of rock icons. Shumway looks at the careers and cultural legacies of seven rock stars in the context of popular music and culture—Elvis Presley, James Brown, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, and Bruce Springsteen. Granted, there are many more names that fall into the rock icon category and that might rightfully appear on this list. Partly, that is the point: "rock star" is a familiar and desired category but also a contested one. Shumway investigates the rock star as a particular kind of cultural construction, different from mere celebrity. After the golden age of moviemaking, media exposure allowed rock stars more political sway than Hollywood's studio stars, and rock stars gradually replaced movie stars as key cultural heroes. Because of changes in American society and the media industries, rock stars have become much more explicitly political figures than were the stars of Hollywood’s studio era. Rock stars, moreover, are icons of change, though not always progressive, whose public personas read like texts produced collaboratively by the performers themselves, their managers, and record companies. These stars thrive in a variety of media, including recorded music, concert performance, dress, staging, cover art, films, television, video, print, and others. Filled with memorable photographs, Rock Star will appeal to anyone interested in modern American popular culture or music history.

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JHU Press

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1421413930

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9781421413938

Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2021

By: William David Hardy,W. David Hardy

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Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2021

By: William David Hardy,W. David Hardy

Fundamentals of HIV Medicine 2021 is the AAHIVM's end-to-end clinical resource for the treatment of individuals with HIV/AIDS. Now updated with HIV workforce strains and PrEP, newly emerging antiretroviral treatment options, and the evolving effects of COVID-19 on HIV care.

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Oxford University Press

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0197576591

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Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible

By: David Evans

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Manic Street Preachers’ The Holy Bible

By: David Evans

In August 1994, Manic Street Preachers released The Holy Bible, a dark, fiercely intelligent album that explored such themes as mental illness, murder and war. Richey Edwards, the band's lyricist and motive force, vanished five months later; he was never found. In his absence The Holy Bible entered the rock canon alongside Joy Division's Closer and Nirvana's In Utero, the valedictory works of troubled young men. This book tells the dramatic story of Manic Street Preachers' masterpiece. Tracing the album's origins in the Valleys, an industrialised region of South Wales where the band spent their formative years, the author argues that The Holy Bible can be seen as a meditation on the uses and abuses of history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501331728

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Zinnophobia

The Battle Over History in Education, Politics, and Scholarship

By: David Detmer

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Zinnophobia

The Battle Over History in Education, Politics, and Scholarship

By: David Detmer

Zinnophobia offers an extended defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States, against his many critics. It includes a discussion of the attempt to ban Zinn's book from Indiana classrooms; a brief summary of Zinn's life and work; an analysis of Zinn's theorizing about bias and objectivity in history; and a detailed response to twenty-five of Zinn's most hostile critics, many of whom are (or were) eminent historians. 'A major contribution to bringing Zinn’s great contributions to even broader public attention, and exposing features of intellectual and political culture that are of no little interest.' Noam Chomsky

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John Hunt Publishing

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1785356798

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The Documentary Makers

Interviews with 15 of the Best in the Business

By: David A. Goldsmith

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The Documentary Makers

Interviews with 15 of the Best in the Business

By: David A. Goldsmith

A series of in-their-own-words interviews with 15 directors whose work has, in some way, extended the boundary of the documentary. They constitute a tiny proportion of those working in the field, but they represent the state of the documentary across the world -- from the limited resources of China's only independent director with no access to his nation's television, to the big budget series that attract tens of millions of American viewers. Some will only work on film, with all its paraphernalia of moviemaking, while others insist on working alone with nothing more than a Handicam. Some question, even abhor, the use of commentary, others wouldn't dream of doing without. Some work by the rules of cinema verite, and some use dramatization while still labeling their work "documentary". Regardless of the where and the how, they all seek to reproduce reality -- whatever that might be. Book jacket.

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Rotovision

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2880467306

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The Chopra Centre Cookbook

By: Deepak Chopra, MD,David Simon, M.D.

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The Chopra Centre Cookbook

By: Deepak Chopra, MD,David Simon, M.D.

The Chopra Centre for Well Being is a retreat that serves as a beautiful, nurturing place where people can come to heal their physical pain, find emotional freedom, empower themselves, and connect to their inner spiritual life. The food is at the heart of this mission, designed to delight the senses, enliven vitality and tap into the joy of being alive. Now, Deepak Chopra and his colleagues from the Chopra Centre offer you marvellous recipes from this extraordinary place of healing – showing how nature provides us with all the nutrients we need to create meals that are delicious as well as nutritious. Combining modern nutritional science and Ayurveda – the most ancient healing system on the planet – The Chopra Centre Cookbook features more than 200 appetising breakfast dishes, snacks and desserts that take the guesswork out of choosing food that is good for the body, as well as 30 days of balanced meal plans. From Courgette Pecan Bread, Vegetarian Paella and Breakfast Burritos to Rosemary White Bean Soup, Braised Salmon with Mango Tomato Salsa and Unbelievable Double Chocolate Cake, you’ll discover a new flavour and enjoyment as the authors show you how to eat food that is good for you, re-establishes the mind–body connection and reverses the aging process.

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Hay House, Inc

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1848505337

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