Introduction / David Starkey -- Part 1. West -- Another Way of Saying / Sherry Simpson -- Hauling Water / Frank Soos -- Red Politics and Blue in Wyoming / David Romtvedt -- Running in the Red/ Jennifer Sinor -- Part 2. Midwest -- Election Season / Lee Martin -- Trapping / Jonis Agee -- Here Was Johnny / Steve Heller -- America, Where's Your Sense of Humor? / Michael J. Rosen -- Control Issues / Robin Hemley -- A Campaign That Failed / Deb Olin Unferth -- Part 3. South -- Playing Debussy in the Heart of Dixie / David Case -- The Kreskin Effect / Jim Peterson -- Faith / John Lane -- How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Swamp in South Carolina / Gilbert Allen -- Rescue the Drowning, Tie Your Shoe-Strings / Sidney Burris -- P Is For ... / Stephen Corey -- Minority within Minority : Dynamics of Race and Culture in the New South / Anthony Kellman -- Theater of Operations / Donald Morrill -- The World Loves New Orleans, but America Has Not Come to Its Rescue / Mona Lisa Saloy -- Louisiana's New Political Landscape / Angus Woodward -- Summertime / David Starkey -- Afterword : Writing the Personal Political Essay / David Starkey.
Summary
Shows what politically progressive creative writers were feeling in the wake of George W Bush's re-election. This book presents the work of essayists who look beyond the passions of the moment - the war in Iraq, the rallying of the Right around social issues, the Democrats' failure in 2004 - to the need for unity.
