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The Moderate Imagination - The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism (Hardcover)
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The Moderate Imagination - The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism (Hardcover)
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In the aftermath of Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Americans
finally faced a perplexing political reality: Democrats, purported
champions of working people since the New Deal, had lost the white,
working-class voters of Middle America. For answers about how this
could be, Yoav Fromer turns to an unlikely source: the fiction of
John Updike. Though commonly viewed as an East Coast chronicler of
suburban angst, the gifted writer (in fact a native of the
quintessential rust-belt state, Pennsylvania) was also an ardent
man of ideas, political ideas whose fiction, Fromer tells us,
should be read not merely as a reflection of the postwar era, but
rather as a critical investigation into the liberal culture that
helped define it. Several generations of Americans since the 1960s
have increasingly felt 'left behind.' In Updike's early work,
Fromer finds a fictional map of the failures of liberalism that
might explain these grievances. The Moderate Imagination also taps
previously unknown archival materials and unread works from his
college years at Harvard to offer a clearer view of the author's
acute political thought and ideas. Updike's prescient literary
imagination, Fromer shows, sensed the disappointments and
alienation of rural white working- and middle-class Americans
decades before conservatives sought to exploit them. In his
writing, he traced liberalism's historic decline to its own
philosophical contradictions rather than to only commonly cited
external circumstances like the Vietnam War, racial strife,
economic recession, and conservative backlash. A subtle
reinterpretation of John Updike's legacy, Fromer's work complicates
and enriches our understanding of one of the twentieth century's
great American writers - even as the book deftly demonstrates what
literature can teach us about politics and history.
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