The Moderate Imagination by Yoav Fromer (Hardback Book)

Name: The Moderate Imagination by Yoav Fromer (Hardback Book)
Brand: University Press of Kansas

University Press of Kansas

In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white, working-class voters of Middle America. For answers about how this could be, Yoav Fromer turns to an unlikely source: the fiction of John Updike. Though commonly viewed as an East Coast chronicler of suburban angst, the gifted writer (in fact a native of the quintessential rust-belt state, Pennsylvania) was also an ardent man of ideas, political ideas whose fiction, Fromer tells us, should be read not merely as a reflection of the postwar era, but rather as a critical investigation into the liberal culture that helped define it.\nSeveral generations of Americans since the 1960s have increasingly\n\nThe Moderate Imagination\nThe Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery usi;