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	The Tribes of America: Journalistic Discoveries of Our People and Their Cultures by Paul Cowan
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Product Details Binding Paperback Dewey Decimal Number 305.280097309045 EAN 9781595582300 ISBN 1595582304 Manufacturer New Press Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 320 Publication Date March 01, 2008 Publisher New Press Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description *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. *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. 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. Customers who bought this item also bought Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals The Age of American Unreason Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule See all books by author Paul Cowan

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