The well-known feminist and author of American Mom offers a manifesto against the cynical politics of the right, showing how the principles of the civil rights and women's movements can help the country move forward. 15,000 first printing.
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In this unusual memoir, author Mary Kay Blakely finds herself no longer capable of overlooking the cruelty and violence of modern political life. Having lost faith in government, having found herself unable to get near a newstand without weeping, she escapes to rural Michigan to contemplate her own anomie--and that of her country. Blakely decides that "political depression" consists of the inability to distance oneself from the news--and considers that it might be an approaching epidemic. Well-researched, well-written, and frighteningly topical, this account may strike a chord with many modern readers.
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Blakely decisively links the personal to the political, as when she discusses how she was rejected by three major health insurance companies because she had a "preexisting condition" (irregular brain waves following a coma). A longtime activist in the civil rights, women's, peace and green movements, she deftly skewers what she sees as the hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh, Patrick Buchanan, the religious right and a national mass media that decontextualizes news stories, stigmatizes the poor and renders invisible working mothers, children and the homeless. From her vantage, Americans inhabit a manufactured "virtual reality," a sound-bite culture that anesthetizes the human longing for love, peace and meaning, so that most Americans don't know, much less care, that the U.S., by far the world's largest exporter of weapons and missiles, contributes to untold deaths in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Author of two previous memoirs (American Mom; Wake Me When It's Over), Blakely offers an irreverent, funny, punchy breath of fresh air, a potent antidote to political apathy.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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