Politics and the American Language

Reviews, Rants, and Commentary, 2011-2018

By William O'Rourke

Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers

Imprint: Welcome Rain Publishers

This new collection is William O'Rourke's third volume of a diverse mixture of long and short articles and it extends his reputation as a brilliant social historian and curmudgeonly contrarian. More political than his previous two volumes (Signs of the Literary Times, 1993; Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer, 2012), it additionally serves as an illuminating memoir of his literary generation. These provocative pieces analyze the contemporary turbulent period, from the Obama years to the dawn of the Trump era.

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