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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
INTRODUCTION: “THE TALK”
PART I. “THE INTERVENTION” THE TOP REASONS AMERICAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY ARE OUT-OF-WHACK
1. No We Can’t: Getting to No While Giving In
2. Money Can’t Buy Happiness (Just Food, Clothing, Gas, Medicine, and Housing)
3. Eat, Pray, Love . . . and Then Get Fired for Spending So Much Time Away from Work
4. Chicken Soup for the Soul Brothers and Soul Sisters: Why Kind, Personal Gestures Aren’t Enough to Overcome Structural Racism
5. They’re Just Not That Into You: Why Working-Class Whites Are Rejecting Democrats
6. Your Best Life Is Actually Someone Else’s: The Politics of Resentment
7. The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing Mr. Right Wing
8. Friends Without Benefits, or Why Buy the Voter When You Can Get the Milk for Free?
9. How to Lose Friends and De-Influence People: How the Left Turns Off the Public and Turns On Itself
10. Republicans Are from Mars, Democrats Are from Venus
11. Three Cups of Crime Spree: Why the Nonprofit Sector Is Too Crooked, Self-Aggrandizing, and Ineffective to Save America
12. The Seven Habits of a Highly Unsuccessful Nation: Why the US Is Lagging
13. The Granivore’s Dilemma: Can the Foodies Survive on Foraged Seeds Alone?
14. America’s Virgin/Whore Complex: Our Obsession with Sex and Shaming
15. A Non-Purpose Driven Life: How Our Reality TV Culture is Stripping America of Soul, Sense, and Meaning
16. Deal Breakers: When to Work on a National Relationship and When to Walk Away
PART II. “THE COUNSELING SESSION” A TWELVE-STEP PROGRAM FOR FIXING OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH AMERICA: CONCRETE WAYS TO FIND COMMON GROUND AND TAKE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY TO SOLVE OUR NATIONAL PROBLEMS
Step One: “Hi, I’m American . . . and I’m an Alcoholic / Spend-aholic / Gun-aholic / War-aholic / Selfie-aholic”
Step Two: Breaking Good: How the Nation Can Create a “Responsibility-for-All” Society
Step Three: We the Voters—How We Can All Own American Politics Again
Step Four: Mr. Smith, Ms. Sanchez, Miss Patel, Ms. Jones, and Mr. Wang Go to Washington: How All of Us Need to Make Political Activity a Noble Calling Again
Step Five: If Corporations Are People, Make Them Good People: Holding Businesses Accountable
Step Six: We Are the World: Why We Need to Bolster the Planet to Fix America
Step Seven: From the Middle Out: Rebuilding the Working Class
Step Eight: How to Overcome Depression with Feathers (Or, A Trope about Hope and How It Will Defeat Poverty)
Step Nine: Beyond Foodies: Ensuring a Cornucopia for All of Us
Step Ten: Outfoxing Fox: How to Make News, Social Media, and All Society Accountable
Step Eleven: We Still Can Overcome: Movement-Building for the Twenty-First Century
Step Twelve: The Activist Patriot—It’s Up to You
PART III. “FINDING CLOSURE”
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the author
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