Rendezvous With Oblivion

The author of "Listen, Liberal" and "What's The Matter With Kansas" returns with a scathing collection of pieces of interlocking commentary on Trump's America.

About the author

Thomas Frank is the author of Pity the Billionaire, The Wrecking Crew, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, and Listen, Liberal (Scribe, 2016). A former columnist for The Wall Street Journal and Harper’s, Frank is the founding editor of The Baffler. He lives outside Washington, DC.

Summary

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What’s the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of interlocking essays perfect for this political moment.

With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, New York Times–bestselling author Thomas Frank takes us on a tour through present-day America, showing us a society in the late stages of disintegration.

Holding nothing back, Frank skewers both the right and left, and rages about the systematic inequality that led, in 2016, to millions of anxious, ordinary people rallying to the presidential campaign of a billionaire who meant them no good.

For those who despair of the future of America and of reason itself, Rendezvous with Oblivion is a booster shot of energy, reality, and moral outrage.

Foreword

From the acclaimed author of Listen, Liberal and What's the Matter with Kansas, a scathing collection of interlocking essays perfect for this political moment.

Additional text

‘The collected essays in Rendezvous show Frank’s commentary to not only be insightful, but more importantly eminently readable. He has a distinctive, sardonic style, that somehow makes even the discussion of the calamities of recent times engaging and entertaining.’

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Frank
• Publisher: Faber Factory Plus GBS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781911617655
• ISBN: 978-1-911617-65-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; USA, Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Political structure & processes, Political structures: democracy, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Central / national / federal government, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies