Now What?: The Voters Have Spoken-Essays on Life After Trump
280Now What?: The Voters Have Spoken-Essays on Life After Trump
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Overview
An eclectic lineup of contributorsfrom Rosanna Arquette, Susan Bro and General Wesley Clark to Keith Olbermann, Stewart O'Nan and Anthony Scaramucciputs 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 leaseany aspectLord 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.”
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780960061570 |
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Publisher: | Wellstone Books |
Publication date: | 12/22/2020 |
Pages: | 280 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
Table of Contents
Introduction Steve Kettmann
1 Mary C. Curtis Charlotte, NC The Progress and the Struggle 1
2 Christopher Buckley Pawleys Island, SC GOPdämmerung 9
3 Mark Ulriksen San Francisco, CA Generalissimo 15
4 Angela Wright Shannon Charlotte, NC For Me, It's All About Kamala 21
5 Keith Olbermann New York, NY Déjà Vu All Over Again 29
6 Jacob Heilbrunn Washington, DC Cooling Off the Moronic Inferno 39
7 Joan Walsh New York, NY Groundhog Day 47
8 Marcos Bretón Sacramento, CA 'Daddy, You Said He Couldn't Win' 51
9 Stephen Mack Jones Detroit, MI Schlepping Toward Tomorrow 59
10 Bronwen Hruska New York, NY More Cowbell 67
11 Will Rayman Tartu, Estonia First Presidential Vote, From Estonia 71
12 Denver Riggleman Afton, VA What Has Happened to the Republican Party? 75
13 Susan Bro Charlottesville, VA Revelations 83
14 Howard Bryant Northampton, MA One for the Elders 91
15 Reverend Al Sharpton New York, NY What Pain Teaches 99
16 Cynthia Tucker Mobile, AL Whitelash 105
17 Nancy E. O'Malley Oakland, CA Kamala as a Young Prosecutor 111
18 General Wesley Clark Little Rock, AR A Man on Horseback 117
19 Addie Tsai Houston, TX Danger in Trump-Era Texas 127
20 Rosanna Arquette Los Angeles, CA Be Like Jane 135
21 Anthony Scaramucci New York, NY Trump in the Oval, Looking Up 141
22 Hussein Ibish Washington, DC Beirut 1975-Washington 2020 147
23 Sandy Alderson St. Petersburg, FL In Trump's Florida 155
24 Amanda Renteria Piedmont, CA Elevation 161
25 Bruce Arena Boston, MA Do What You Do, Joe 167
26 Terry McAuliffe McLean, VA Rebuilding From the Wreckage 173
27 Stephanie Salter Indianapolis, in "He Stole Everything But the Shit" 179
28 Marcelo Los Angeles, CA Mi Padre 187
29 Doug Sovern Oakland, CA The Kids Are Alright 191
30 Ken Korach Henderson, NV My Dad (and FDR) on a Way Forward 201
31 Stewart O'Nan Pittsburgh, PA Yogi at the Wall 207
32 J-L Cauvin Bloomfield, NJ Surgery Was A Success-Now For The Chemo 213
33 Dusty Baker Granite Bay, CA Darren's Generation 219
34 Kuji Chahal San Francisco, CA The Kamala I Knew 225
35 Michael Powell Brooklyn, NY Joy in Flushing 229
36 Antonia Hitchens Los Angeles, CA Beverly Hills Freedom Rally 237
37 Art Cullen Storm Lake, IA We Can Bind the Nation's Wounds Through Food 249
38 Sophia Lear Los Angeles, CA I Know Nothing 259
Acknowledgments 269