Wow!
Worldcat is now available to the public -- search for an author and you will be told where you can find her books in your vicinity.
I'm reading Kevin Phillips' American Theocracy in my never-ending research project on populism and I will tell you this -- it is a good read. I have been trying to get through Ernesto Laclau's On Populist Reason, and I started yelling at the book yesterday in front of my son. "Empty signifiers," Georges Bataille's notion of heterogeneity used to understand the "people," "metaphor/metonymy," "objet petit a," and a reference to aforesaid Kevin Phillips as GOP Machiavelli... It's enough to raise anyone's "populist" ire; which leads me to the conclusion that Laclau has theorized populism, but he is NOT in touch with the populist within.
I'm reading Kevin Phillips' American Theocracy in my never-ending research project on populism and I will tell you this -- it is a good read. I have been trying to get through Ernesto Laclau's On Populist Reason, and I started yelling at the book yesterday in front of my son. "Empty signifiers," Georges Bataille's notion of heterogeneity used to understand the "people," "metaphor/metonymy," "objet petit a," and a reference to aforesaid Kevin Phillips as GOP Machiavelli... It's enough to raise anyone's "populist" ire; which leads me to the conclusion that Laclau has theorized populism, but he is NOT in touch with the populist within.
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A wonderful service. Unfortunately my first try at it showed that the closest location for the book I was looking for was 236 miles away. I would really like to sea all out of print (and most in-print) books available on line in some form.
I agree that out of print should be on line, but please make it pdf and not html!
I still like to print things out and have them in my grubby little hands!
I don't see how KP can still be billed as a former Republican strategist after his serial attacks on the same party and its baqckers... On the other hand, you'd think he would have been drive out of cozy Connecticut by now for his tireless efforts... Now Paul Krugman accuses conservatives of using the term ‘conspiracy theory’ to belittle critics of the Bush administration, and we're off to the races (at the mouth). Great documentation of the debates on the site devoted to this KP book, americantheocracy.net
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