05214cam a2200829 4500 531944384 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780525522034 0525522034 B076GPHLFK Amazon B076GPHLFK Amazon B076GPHLFK Amazon d39a622e-459e-4303-97aa-950491400185 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3605800 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib LeDuff, Charlie. Sh*tshow [Libby eBook] : The Country's Collapsing . . . and the Ratings Are Great. Penguin Publishing Group, 2018. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1335kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1475kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. gifts for history buffs. political science books. American history books. black lives matter. political science. immigration books. american history. journalism books. political books. sociology books. charlie leduff. history books. the americans. Donald Trump. gun violence. Geopolitics. Journalists. fathers day. trump books. us history. journalist. Journalism. republican. government. local news. president. Sociology. shit show. politics. reporter. Democrat. campaign. shitshow. America. protest. History. shtshow. media. Iowa. HTML:A daring, firsthand, and utterly-unscripted account of crisis in America, from Ferguson to Flint to Cliven Bundy's ranch to Donald Trump's unstoppable campaign for President—at every turn, Pulitzer-prize winner and bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy, Charlie LeDuff was there In the Fall of 2013, long before any sane person had seriously considered the possibility of a Trump presidency, Charlie LeDuff sat in the office of then-Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, and made a simple but prophetic claim: The whole country is bankrupt and on high boil. It's a shitshow out there. No one in the bubbles of Washington, DC., New York, or Los Angles was talking about it—least of all the media. LeDuff wanted to go to the heart of the country to report what was really going on. Ailes baulked. Could the hard-living and straight-shooting LeDuff be controlled? But, then, perhaps on a whim, he agreed. And so LeDuff set out to record a TV series called, "The Americans," and, along the way, ended up bearing witness to the ever-quickening unraveling of The American Dream. For three years, LeDuff travelled the width and breadth of the country with his team of production irregulars, ending up on the Mexican border crossing the Rio Grande on a yellow rubber kayak alongside undocumented immigrants; in the middle of Ferguson as the city burned; and watching the children of Flint get sick from undrinkable water. Racial, political, social, and economic tensions were escalating by the day. The inexorable effects of technological change and globalization were being felt more and more acutely, at the same time as wages stagnated and the price of housing, education, and healthcare went through the roof. The American people felt defeated and abandoned by their politicians, and those politicians seemed incapable of rising to the occasion. The old way of life was slipping away, replaced only by social media, part-time work, and opioid addiction. Sh*tshow is that true, tragic, and distinctively American story, told from the parts of the country hurting the most. A soul-baring, irreverent, and iconoclastic writer, LeDuff speaks the language of everyday Americans, and is unafraid of getting his hands dirty. He scrambles the tired-old political, social, and racial categories, taking no sides—or prisoners. Old-school, gonzo-style reporting, this is both a necessary confrontation with the darkest parts of the American psyche and a desperately-needed reminder of the country's best instincts. Media Studies. Nonfiction. Politics. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d39a622e-459e-4303-97aa-950491400185&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d39a622e-459e-4303-97aa-950491400185&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d39a622e-459e-4303-97aa-950491400185&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)