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001 2013474483
003 DLC
005 20131218080853.0
008 131212t20132012nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013474483
020 $a9781476733128 (pbk.)
020 $z9781476733135 (ebook)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aE839.5$b.W34 2013
082 00 $a973.91$223
100 1 $aWalsh, Joan,$d1958-
245 10 $aWhat's the matter with white people? :$bfinding our way in the next America /$cJoan Walsh.
246 3 $aWhat is the matter with white people?
250 $aFirst Touchstone trade paperback edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$ba Touchstone book published by Simon & Schuster,$c2013.
264 4 $c©2012.
300 $axiv, 335 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aRevised edition of: Indivisible : how America divided against itself. Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012.
500 $a"With a new afterword"--Page 4 of cover.
520 $a"This book began as a political history of the 60s and 70s, with a particular focus on why Americans have let our nation decline in almost every measurable way since then, and sometimes even cheered on those who engineered that decline. I wanted to tell it the way I saw it growing up, watching many of my working-class Irish relatives forsake the Democrats, a party they saw as forsaking them. But my family's story, and that of the Democratic Party, turned out to be more complicated"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aFact-checking a fractured Irish fairy tale -- Growing up in Nixonland -- The loneliness of the Reagan-era do-gooder -- Some of my best Presidents are Black -- What's the matter with white people?
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
610 20 $aDemocratic Party (U.S.)$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aIrish Americans$xPolitics and government.
600 10 $aWalsh, Joan,$d1958-
700 1 $aWalsh, Joan,$d1958-$tIndivisible.