Beschreibung:
Russell Cobb’s The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of “Flyover Country” that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Prologue 1. Voyage to Dementiatown 2. You’re Not Doing Fine, Oklahoma 3. The Road to Hell in Indian Territory 4. Where the Hell Is Oklahoma Anyway? 5. The Long Goodbye to Oklahoma’s Small-Town Jews 6. Okies in the Promised Land 7. Among the Tribe of the Wannabes 8. Backward, Christian Soldier 9. Keeping Oklahoma Weird 10. Cursed? 11. The Fire That Time 12. Uncommon Commons Epilogue Notes Index