THERE'S NOTHING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD BUT YELLOW STRIPES AND DEAD ARMADILLOS de Jim Hightower - 1997

First edition 1997. Copyright by author 1997. Book design by Nancy Singer. Inscribed by author. 5th printing. Jacket design by Tom Lau, Jacket photograph copyright 1997 by Paul S. Howell, Jacket illustration copyright 1997 by Jennifer Harper. Dust jacket in very good condition only has minor wear at edge spine. boards are clean and unmarked. Pages are clean and unmarked. appears book is unread. The word "May" is hand written in pencil on the upper front corner of the front page-- Hightower is at it again, this time taking aim at those bedrock institutions that drive the economic and cultural life of the country. As the man himself says, "I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out." In this lucid, viciously funny, downright refreshing book, Hightower argues that government, the media and corporate conglomerates have put us smack-dab in the middle of the mess we're in today. Leaving almost no contemporary issue unscathed, he lays bare the dirty politics behind the new global economy, exposing how these three institutions have undermined basic American values like justice, fairness, tolerance and opportunity; how they've steamrolled the common people, ignoring their needs; how they've created an oppressive and oppressing machine that keeps the downtrodden downtrodden. Author, radio commentator, public speaker and political sparkplug, Hightower doesn't gripe and whine, he offers commonsense solutions to controversial issues. In language everyone can understand, he tackles big issues and proposes strategies that are easy to implement. Calling on the poor and middleclass, the groups he claims represent a true populist majority, he shows how an already strong grassroots movement can be made even stronger. Arguing for change on the local level, Hightower demonstrates exactly how this can be accomplished. ---There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: A Work of Political Subversion Author Jim Hightower- Publisher HarperCollins, 1997- ISBN 0060187662, 9780060187668- Length 304 pages- Subjects Political Science ' American Government ' State-.i
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