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Authoritarianism and Class in American Political Fiction

Elite Pluralism and Political Bosses in Three Post-War Novels

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvDavid Smit

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This book analyzes what many critics consider to be the three best examples of modern American political fiction—Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, Edwin O’Connor’s The Last Hurrah, and Billy Lee Brammer’s The Gay Place—to address a specific problem in American governance: how the intense competition for power among elite factions often results in their ignoring major groups of their constituents, thereby providing political bosses with a rationale to seize authoritarian control of the government in the name of constituent groups who feel ignored or neglected, promising them more democratic rule, but in the process, excluding other groups, so that the bosses themselves become elitist, ruling only for the sake of some constituents and not others.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-29
Mått152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt453 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Research in American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor206
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032268040

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IntroductionChapter 1: Class, Elite Pluralism, and Political BossesPart IChapter 2: Robert Penn Warren and Huey Long’s Louisiana: 1928–32Chapter 3: A Class Analysis of All the King’s MenPart IIChapter 4: Edwin O’Connor and James Michael Curley’s Boston: 1914–50Chapter 5: A Class Analysis of The Last HurrahPart IIIChapter 6: Billie Lee Brammer and Lyndon Johnson’s Texas in the1950sChapter 7: A Class Analysis of The Gay PlaceConclusion