Trucking Country The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy

Name: Trucking Country The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy
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ISBN: 9780691160924

ISBN-10: 0691160929

ISBN-13: 9780691160924

Edition: 2014

Authors: Shane Hamilton

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Trucking Country is a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. Shane Hamilton paints an eye-opening portrait of the rural highways of the American heartland, and in doing so explains why working-class populist voters are drawn to conservative politicians who seemingly don't represent their financial interests.Hamilton challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. The roots of rural conservatism, Hamilton demonstrates, took hold long before the culture wars…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/23/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English