Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-281) and index.
Contents
Ham 'n' Amos: the populist and patrician roots of America first -- There are left the mountains: American writers and the perishing republic -- The merchants of death of Sunset Boulevard -- Alice of malice: the other side of Rooseveltism -- Sinclair Lewis: it's a grand republic -- Patriotic Gore Vidal -- Fulbright: the first Arkansas Bill -- Edward Abbey: parched in the American desert -- Jack Kerouac: the beat goes right -- Autumn in new England: the last Jeffersonian -- The new party of the old republic -- The devil thumbs a ride: Buchanan, Perot, and the middle American Revolt --
The coiled rattlesnake: an America first foreign policy for the 1990s.