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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
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"Explores the history, culture, and politics of Texas, while holding the stereotypes up for rigorous scrutiny, [providing a] journey through the most controversial state in America. It is a red state in the heart of Trumpland that hasn't elected a Democrat to a statewide office in more than twenty years; but it is also a state in which minorities already form a majority (including the largest number of Muslim adherents). The cities are blue and among...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Several "pieces first published in The New Yorker recall the path terror in the Middle East has taken from the rise of al-Qaeda in the 1990s to the recent beheadings of reporters and aid workers by ISIS ... They include an ... impression of Saudi Arabia, a kingdom of silence under the control of the religious police; the Syrian film industry, then compliant at the edges but already exuding a feeling of the barely masked fury that erupted into civil...
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