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Look homeward, America : in search of reactionary radicals and front-porch anarchists
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"In Look Homeward, America, Bill Kauffman introduces us to the reactionary radicals, front-porch anarchists, and traditionalist rebels who give American culture and politics its pith, vim, and life...
"In Look Homeward, America, Bill Kauffman introduces us to the reactionary radicals, front-porch anarchists, and traditionalist rebels who give American culture and politics its pith, vim, and life. Blending history, memoir, digressive literariness, and polemic, Kauffman provides fresh portraiture of such American originals as Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day, regionalist painter Grant Wood, farmer-writer Wendell Berry; publisher Henry Regnery, maverick U.S. senators Eugene McCarthy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and other Americans who can't - or shouldn't - be filed away in the usual boxes labeled "liberal" and "conservative.""--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- Bill Kauffman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Wilmington, DE : ISI Books, [2006]
- ©2006
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- xviii, 210 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781932236873, 1932236872
- OCLC
- ocm69171738
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-195) and index.
- Ch. 1. Two independent Catholic liberals diverged in a wood : Eugene McCarthy and Pat Moynihan -- Ch. 2. The way of love : the American distributism of Dorothy Day -- Ch. 3. Return from Bohemia : Grant Wood and the promise of American regionalism -- Ch. 4. Wendell Berry on war and peace : or, Port William versus the empire -- Ch. 5. A working-class hero is something to be : Carolyn Chute and other insubordinate Americans -- Ch. 6. Sanford 'n Seth : or, what I found while hunting Civil War artifacts in my backyard -- Conclusion : why I am not ashamed to be an American
Subjects
- Radicalism -- United States.
- Right and left (Political science)
- Political culture -- United States.
- Regionalism -- United States.
- Anarchism -- United States.
- Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
- Social problems -- United States.
- Protest movements -- United States.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009.
- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.