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This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel tells the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still...
"Although Richard Hofstadter's 1962 classic, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, would suggest that a history of American political ignorance could start earlier -- as early as the 1720s, Andy Borowitz has chosen to focus on the most recent 50 y..."
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Examines the intellectual deterioration of American politics, from Ronald Reagan to Dan Quayle, from George W. Bush to Sarah Palin, to its apotheosis in Donald J. Trump.
