Homegrown Democrat (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Garrison Keillor
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Current affairs and memoir
- Time of Work: 1942-2004
- Setting: Minnesota and throughout the United States
- Genres: Memoir, Current affairs, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Patriotism, Minnesota, Toleration, Democratic Party, Republican Party
- Locales: Minnesota
The year 2004 was something of a banner year for political books in the United States. American soldiers were fighting a war overseas in Iraq, fears of terrorism were on the rise at home, and contentious issues from same-sex marriage to tax reform were being hotly debated in one of the most polarizing national elections in living memory. With all this going on, the appetite of the American people for books about politics, political figures, and political issues seemed insatiable. Loud—sometimes strident—voices from both the Right and the Left weighed in with dozens of volumes, and...
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