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A Vintage Shorts Selection Almost three decades ago, iconic and incomparable American essayist Joan Didion's now-classic report from the Dukakis campaign trail exposed, in no uncertain terms, the complete sham that is the modern American presidential run. Writing with bite and some humor too, Didion betrays the process-the way in which power is exchanged and the status quo is maintained. All insiders-politicians, journalists, spin doctors-participate in a political narrative that is designed as it is to maintain the illusion of consensus by obscuring rather than addressing actual issues. The optics of presidential campaigns have grown ev…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-525-43382-8
- EAN: 9780525433828
- Produktnummer: 20542318
- Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 24 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 6'953 KB
Über den Autor
Joan Didion was born in Sacramento, California, and now lives in New York City. She is the author of five novels and eight previous books of nonfiction. Her collected nonfiction,We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live, was published by Everyman's Library in 2006.
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