Whistling Past Dixie

Author : Thomas F. Schaller
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 074329016X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whistling Past Dixie written by Thomas F. Schaller and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two generations after he challenged Republicans to envision a Southern-based national majority, Phillips issues a bold challenge to Democrats to transform American politics by building a winning coalition outside the South.

Author : Marcia K. Vaughan
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060210304
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whistling Dixie written by Marcia K. Vaughan and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dixie Lee brings home an alligator, a snake, and an owl as pets to protect her family from such spooky creatures as the churn-turners, the bogeyman, and the mist-sisters.

Author : Bob Moser
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805090147
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Dixie written by Bob Moser and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-04-27 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keenly observed and deeply grounded in contemporary Southern politics, "Blue Dixie" reveals the changing face of American politics in the South itself and its impact on the rest of the nation.

Author : Lisa Patton
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429957832
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter written by Lisa Patton and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'Easter is the story of a sweet Southern belle who leaves her beloved Memphis, Tennessee to follow her husband's dream of becoming the proprietor of a quaint Vermont inn. Leelee Satterfield seemed to have it all: a gorgeous husband, two adorable daughters, and roots in the sunny city of Memphis, Tennessee. So when her husband gets the idea to uproot the family to run a quaint Vermont inn, Leelee is devastated...and her three best friends are outraged. But she's loved Baker Satterfield since the tenth grade, how can she not indulge his dream? Plus, the glossy photos of bright autumn trees and smiling children in ski suits push her over the edge...after all, how much trouble can it really be? But Leelee discovers pretty fast that there's a truckload of things nobody tells you about Vermont until you live there: such as mud season, vampire flies, and the danger of ice sheets careening off roofs. Not to mention when her beloved Yorkie decides to pick New Year's Eve to go to doggie heaven-she encounters one more New England oddity: frozen ground means you can't bury your dead in the winter. And that Yankee idiosyncrasy just won't do. The inn they've bought also has its host of problems: an odor that no amount of potpourri can erase, tacky décor, and a staff of peculiar Vermonters whose personalities are as unique as the hippopotamus collection gracing the fireplace mantle. The whole operation is managed by Helga, a stern German woman who takes special delight in bullying Leelee for her southern gentility. Needless to say, it doesn't take long for Leelee to start wondering when to drag out the moving boxes again. But when an unexpected hardship takes Leelee by surprise, she finds herself left alone with an inn to run, a mortgage to pay, and two daughters to raise. But this Southern belle won't be run out of town so easily. Drawing on the Southern grit and inner strength she didn't know she had, Leelee decides to turn around the Inn, her attitude and her life. In doing so, she makes friends with her neighbors, finds a little romance, and realizes there's a lot more in common with Vermont than she first thought. In this moving and comedic debut, Lisa Patton paints a hilarious portrait of life in Vermont as seen through the eyes of a southern belle readers won't soon forget. A charming fish-out-of-water tale of one woman who learns to stand up for herself-in sandals and snow boots-against the odds.

Author : John Shelton Reed
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156961745
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whistling Dixie written by John Shelton Reed and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty and sometimes outrageous collection of essays presenting one Southerner's viewpoint about what makes the South the South. As the Washington Post said, "Reed knows his region intimately, probably as well as anyone around, and manages the impressive feat of regarding it both seriously and lightly".

Author : Thomas F. Schaller
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300210779
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stronghold written by Thomas F. Schaller and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once the party of presidents, the GOP in recent elections has failed to pull together convincing national majorities. Republicans have lost four of the last six presidential races and lost the popular vote in five of the last six. In their lone victory, the party incumbent won—during wartime—by the slimmest of margins. In this fascinating and important book, Thomas Schaller examines national Republican politics since President Ronald Reagan left office in 1989. From Newt Gingrich’s ascent to Speaker of the House through the defeat of Mitt Romney in 2012, Schaller traces the Republican Party’s institutional transformation and its broad consequences, not only for Republicans but also for America. Gingrich’s “Contract with America” set in motion a vicious cycle, Schaller contends: as the GOP became more conservative, it became more Congress-centered, and as its congressional wing grew more powerful, the party grew more conservative. This dangerous loop, unless broken, may signal a future of increasing radicalization, dependency on a shrinking pool of voters, and less viability as a true national party. In a thought-provoking conclusion, the author discusses repercussions of the GOP decline, among them political polarization and the paralysis of the federal government.

Author : Anderson Scott
Publisher : Columbia College (Chicago)
ISBN 13 : 9781935195351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whistling Dixie written by Anderson Scott and published by Columbia College (Chicago). This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs of latter-day Confederates take at Civil War re-enactments across the southern United States in the years leading up to the 2011 sesquicentennial of the Civil War.--Inside front dust jacket.

Author : Paul Waldman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470362839
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Right Is Not Enough written by Paul Waldman and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Waldman's book is terrific-good sense mustered with evidence, well argued, and sharply written to boot. I agree fervently with almost everything he writes. This is the indispensable book for the 2006 elections." --Todd Gitlin, author of The Sixties and The Twilight of Common Dreams "A well-sourced, partisan blueprint for undoing Republican control of the nation." --Publishers Weekly "Here's the ticket for Democrats to get back in power: read this book, understand what it means to be a true American progressive, expose conservatives as the mean elitists they are, get tough, and fight back. Nobody paints the strengths of progressives and the weaknesses of conservatives like Paul Waldman." --Bill Press, author How the Republicans Stole Christmas "With clarity and passion, Paul Waldman demonstrates persuasively that the forces of the right have not 'taken over the country,' as the media often lazily put it. They've only taken over politics. That can be reversed, and Waldman shows exactly how." --Michael Tomasky, Editor, the American Prospect

Author : Edward H. Miller
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022620538X
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nut Country written by Edward H. Miller and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If there was a city most likely to host the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas was it. Kennedy himself recognized Dallas's special and extreme nature, saying to Jackie in Fort Worth on the morning of November 22, "We're heading into nut country today." Edward H. Miller makes the persuasive case in this lucid and insightful book that the ultraconservative faction of today's Republican Party is a product specifically of the political climate of Dallas in the 1950s and early 1960s, which was marked by apocalyptic language, conspiracy theories, and absolutist thought and rhetoric. Miller shows not only that the influential ultraconservative figures in Dallas fomented religious and racial extremism but that the arc of politics bent ever rightward, as otherwise moderate local Republicans were pressured to move away from the center. This faction promoted the creation of the national Republican Party's "Southern Strategy," which reversed the party's historical position on civil rights. This strategy, often credited to Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater in the wake of the crises of the 1960s, has its origins instead in the racial and religious beliefs of extremists in this volatile time and place. Dallas is the root of it all.

Author : Sean Dietrich
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539787655
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sean of the South written by Sean Dietrich and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories by Sean Dietrich, a writer, humorist, and novelist, known for his commentary on life in the American South. His humor and short fiction appear in various publications throughout the Southeast.