Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke Stone-Cold Stupid and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the "Real America"
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"You cant truly understand the country youre living in without reading Williamson." Rich Lowry National Review "His observations on American culture history and politics capture the moment were inand where we are going." Dana Perino Fox News An Appalachian economy that uses cases of Pepsi as money. Life in a homeless camp in Austin. A young woman whose rsum reads Topless Chick Uncredited. Remorselessly unsentimental Kevin D. Williamson is a chronicler of American underclass dysfunction unlike any other. From the hollows of Eastern Kentucky to the porn business in Las Vegas from the casinos of Atlantic City to the heroin rehabs of New Orleans he depicts an often brutal reality that does not fit nicely into any political narrative or comfort any partisan. Coming from the world he writes about Williamson understands it in a way that most commentators on American politics and culture simply cant. In these sometimes savage and often hilarious essays he takes readers on a wild tour of the wreckage of the American republicthe white minstrel show of right-wing grievance politics progressive politicians addicted to gambling revenue the culture of passive victimhood and the reality of permanent poverty. Unsparing yet never unsympathetic Big White Ghetto provides essential insight into an enormous but forgotten segment of American society.
