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Now What? - The Voters Have Spoken-Essays on Life After Trump (Paperback)
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Now What? - The Voters Have Spoken-Essays on Life After Trump (Paperback)
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Loot Price R469
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When the networks called the 2020 presidential election for Joe
Biden on Saturday, November 7, 2020, people from coast to coast
exhaled--and danced in the streets. This quick-turnaround volume, a
collection of 38 personal essays from writers all over the
country--"many of America's most thoughtful voices," as Jon Meacham
puts it--captures the week Trump was voted out, a unique juncture
in American life, and helps point toward a way forward to a nation
less divided. An eclectic lineup of contributors--from Rosanna
Arquette, Susan Bro and General Wesley Clark to Keith Olbermann,
Stewart O'Nan and Anthony Scaramucci--puts a year of transition
into perspective, and summons the anxieties and hopes so many have
for better times ahead. As award-winning columnist Mary C. Curtis
writes in the lead essay, "Saying you're not interested in politics
is dangerous because, like it or not, politics is interested in
you." Novelist Christopher Buckley, a former speechwriter for Vice
President George H.W. Bush, laments, "The Republican Senate, with
one exception, has become a stay of ovine, lickspittle quislings,
degenerate descendants of such giants as Everett Dirksen, Barry
Goldwater, Howard Baker and John McCain." Nero Award-winning
mystery novelist Stephen Mack Jones writes, to Donald Trump,
"Remember: You live in my house. 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is my
house. My ancestors built it at a cost of blood, soul and labor. I
pay my taxes every year to feed you, clothe you and your family and
staff and fly you around the country and the world in my
tricked-out private jet. If you violate any aspect of your
four-year lease--any aspect--Lord Jesus so help me, I will do
everything in my power to kick yo narrow ass to the curb." As
Publisher Steve Kettmann writes in the Introduction: "The hope is
that in putting out these glimpses so quickly, giving them an
immediacy unusual in book publishing, we can help in the mourning
for all that has been lost, help in the healing (of ourselves and
of our country), and help in the pained effort, like moving limbs
that have gone numb from inactivity, to give new life to our
democracy. We stared into the abyss, tottered on the edge, and a
record-setting surge of voting and activism delivered us from the
very real threat of plunging into autocracy."
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