Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Fear and Loathing in Middle America

"Imagine a cross between Thomas Frank's What's the Matter With Kansas?, Hunter S. Thompson's booze-and-dope fueled meditations on Nixon's political potency, and C. Wright Mills' understanding of the durability of the power elite...put 'em all into the hopper, mix them around at high speed, and you end up somewhere about where Bageant did."