PublishedScribe Publications, July 2018 |
ISBN9781925713497 |
FormatSoftcover, 240 pages |
Dimensions20.8cm × 13.5cm × 2.4cm |
What does a middle-class democracy look like when it comes apart? When, after forty years of economic triumph, Americas winners persuade themselves that they owe nothing to the rest of the country? With his sharp eye for detail, Thomas Frank takes us on a wide-ranging tour through present-day America, showing us a society in the late stages of disintegration, and describing the worlds of both the winners and the losers the sprawling mansion districts as well as the lives of fast-food workers.
Rendezvous with Oblivion is a collection of interlocking essays examining how inequality has manifested itself in US cities, in its jobs, in the way its people travel, and, of course, in its politics where, in 2016, millions of anxious, ordinary people rallied to the presidential campaign of a billionaire who meant them no good.
