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Favorite Sons

John Russell

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Description:"Favorite Sons is an American novel on the grand scale, a saga of ideas, of hopes and fears, set amongst the real-life giants - Pierpont Morgan, George Patton, John F. Kennedy. It takes in the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the McCarthy Era, the Vietnam War, and the Reagan Revolution. The themes are serious, the timespan is large, and the patterns are classic: the return of the prodigal son, the struggle against fate, a son's search for a missing father, hero and nemesis, good and evil, progress and reaction." "Flash back to the South in 1950, where a mob surrounds the car of a U.S. senator outside a political rally, waving posters showing the senator's wife dancing with an African diplomat at the U.N.: the young man driving the car is panicked as they pound on the car, rock it, shouting racial epithets. "Tell us the truth about your nigger boy!" they scream." "Now flash forward to 1978, the "new South," and another political rally where that panic-stricken young man is now a progressive U.S. senator himself: as he faces the cameras, a heckler bursts forward from the crowd. "Fornicator!" the heckler shouts, as the cameras turn toward him. "Burn in the pit! Be cursed before God! The Christ, the Living God!"" "At the center of Favorite Sons are two men, friends and rivals - industrialist Roger Albright, the last hope of a famous but impoverished old family, and Senator Worth Patterson, heir to a railroad fortune, to the manner born. This is their story, but it is also the story of the woman they both want, of the South they hope to change, and of the sons and daughters who seek to succeed where the parents failed. Set against them is the forbidding figure of Joe Crain, a media genius from the New Right who hates what they stand for, who will use any means to destroy them." "The story of Albright and Patterson is told in a big, unabashedly ambitious, and powerfully moving novel of America and American politics."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights ReservedWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Favorite Sons. To get started finding Favorite Sons, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 344

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 1992

ISBN: HT9bAAAAMAAJ

Description: "Favorite Sons is an American novel on the grand scale, a saga of ideas, of hopes and fears, set amongst the real-life giants - Pierpont Morgan, George Patton, John F. Kennedy. It takes in the Great Depression, the New Deal, World War II, the McCarthy Era, the Vietnam War, and the Reagan Revolution. The themes are serious, the timespan is large, and the patterns are classic: the return of the prodigal son, the struggle against fate, a son's search for a missing father, hero and nemesis, good and evil, progress and reaction." "Flash back to the South in 1950, where a mob surrounds the car of a U.S. senator outside a political rally, waving posters showing the senator's wife dancing with an African diplomat at the U.N.: the young man driving the car is panicked as they pound on the car, rock it, shouting racial epithets. "Tell us the truth about your nigger boy!" they scream." "Now flash forward to 1978, the "new South," and another political rally where that panic-stricken young man is now a progressive U.S. senator himself: as he faces the cameras, a heckler bursts forward from the crowd. "Fornicator!" the heckler shouts, as the cameras turn toward him. "Burn in the pit! Be cursed before God! The Christ, the Living God!"" "At the center of Favorite Sons are two men, friends and rivals - industrialist Roger Albright, the last hope of a famous but impoverished old family, and Senator Worth Patterson, heir to a railroad fortune, to the manner born. This is their story, but it is also the story of the woman they both want, of the South they hope to change, and of the sons and daughters who seek to succeed where the parents failed. Set against them is the forbidding figure of Joe Crain, a media genius from the New Right who hates what they stand for, who will use any means to destroy them." "The story of Albright and Patterson is told in a big, unabashedly ambitious, and powerfully moving novel of America and American politics."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights ReservedWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Favorite Sons. To get started finding Favorite Sons, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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