An edition of Bad stories
(2018)
Bad stories
what the hell just happened to our country
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by Steve Almond
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In the wake of the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, this "is Almond's effort to make sense of our historical moment, to connect certain dots that go unconnected amid the deluge of hot takes and think pieces. Almond looks to literary voices--from Melville to Orwell, from Bradbury to Baldwin--to help explain the roots of [what he sees as] our moral erosion as a people"--
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Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country
2018, Red Hen Press
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Bad stories: what the hell just happened to our country
2018
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Table of Contents
Bad story #1. Watergate was about a corrupt president
Bad story #2. The United States is a representative democracy
Bad story #3. Our grievances matter more than our vulnerabilities
Bad story #4. Economic anguish fueled trumpism
Bad story #5. Trump was a change agent
Bad story #6. What amuses us can't hurt us
Bad story #7. Journalism would make a hero of me
Bad story #8. Nobody would vote for a guy like that
Bad story #9. I do get a lot of honesty on the Internet
Bad story #10. Sports bring us together as a nation
Bad story #11. American women will never empower a sexual predator
Bad story #12. Our court jesters will rescue the kingdom
Bad story #13. There is no such thing as fair and balanced
Bad story #14. The vast right-wing conspiracy was just a conspiracy
Bad story #15. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses
Bad story #16. The Cold War is over (and we won!)
Final bad story. America is incapable of moral improvement.
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