![]() ![]() These are studies of political groups, but they are not chiefly political in nature they tend to be written in the manner of Coming of Age in Samoa or Notes on the Balinese Cockfight. These books are written not by historians but by sociologists, anthropologists, and reporters a partial list would include Joe Bageant’s Deerhunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War (2007), Kate Zernike’s Boiling Mad: Inside Tea Party America (2010), and Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson’s The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (2012). Donald Trump in front of the Samaritan’s Purse mobile kitchen at an event for flood victims, Greenwell Springs Baptist Church, near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, August 2016Īs the country’s major political parties have become foreign countries to each other-with their own languages, press, moral philosophies, realities-a new kind of political literature has emerged, inspired by Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas? (2004). ![]()
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