The Moderate Imagination by Yoav Fromer - 9780700629527

Name: The Moderate Imagination by Yoav Fromer - 9780700629527
Brand: University Press of Kansas

University Press of Kansas

The Moderate ImaginationThe Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism\nAuthor(s): Yoav Fromer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University Press of Kansas, United States\nImprint: University Press of Kansas\nISBN-13: 9780700629527, 978-0700629527\nSynopsis\nIn 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 .