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The Tribes of America:

Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures
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New Press, 2008 - 311 Seiten
A reissue of a fascinating work of "superb" ("Chicago Tribune") reportage on the fault lines that produced today's red/blue divide.
First published in 1979 and long out of print, "The Tribes of America" is an overlooked classic--a prescient and deeply empathetic work based on seven years of reporting from the front lines of the culture wars that continue to divide America. Long before Tom Frank asked, "What's the matter with Kansas?" Village Voice reporter and civil rights activist Paul Cowan set out to "to cross the sound barrier of dogma and test [his] beliefs against the realities of American life" by investigating what he called the "professional, religious, ethnic, and racial tribes--the Tribes of America." From reporting on a vicious battle over school textbooks in West Virginia, the school busing crisis in Boston, and the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, to the fight over low-income housing in Forest Hills, Queens, and the 1972 conspiracy trial of Eqbal Ahmad, Father Philip Berrigan, and others, Cowan journeyed deep into misunderstood communities across the nation to depict American struggles, prejudices, and hopes.
In his introduction, Rick Perlstein writes that Cowan's "agonized sensitivity to battlefields then barely emergent makes for one of the most remarkable books I have ever read by any journalist." "The Tribes of America" is a powerful model for engaged journalism and an enormously illuminating portrait of a nation at war with itself.

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Review: The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures

Nutzerbericht  - Liza - Goodreads

Paul is my brother. You can read more about him on my blog www.seesaw.typepad.com. Paul was an amazing writer and journalist. We miss him dearly. Vollständige Rezension lesen

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Nutzerbericht  - Matt - Goodreads

Fascinating parallels to our current day and age. My favorite chapters would have to on the Boston busing crisis and the trucker strike. The '70s: So different and yet so similar (cf. conspicuous consumption, Jimmy Carter). Vollständige Rezension lesen

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INTRODUCTION BY RICK PERLSTEIN
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTERLUDE Into the Cauldron
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Über den Autor (2008)

Paul Cowan (1940-88) was a longtime reporter for the "Village Voice" and the author of "The Making of an Un-American, Only Yesterday, An Orphan in History", and, with Rachel Cowan, "Mixed Blessings" and "A Torah Is Written". Rick Perlstein is the author of "Nixonland" and "Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus".

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