Authoritarianism and Class in American Political Fiction

Elite Pluralism and Political Bosses in Three Post-War Novels

Gebonden Engels 2022 1e druk 9781032188201
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This book analyzes what many critics consider to be the three best examples of modern American political fiction—Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah, and Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place—to address a specific problem in American governance: how the intense competition for power among elite factions often results in their ignoring major groups of their constituents, thereby providing political bosses with a rationale to seize authoritarian control of the government in the name of constituent groups who feel ignored or neglected, promising them more democratic rule, but in the process, excluding other groups, so that the bosses themselves become elitist, ruling only for the sake of some constituents and not others.

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ISBN13:9781032188201
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:206
Druk:1

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