Ship of fools : how a selfish ruling class is bringing America to the brink of revolution
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Waterville : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2019.
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Large Print
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Large print edition.
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9781432862763, 1432862766
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349 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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Published
Waterville : Thorndike Press Large Print, 2019.
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ISBN
9781432862763, 1432862766

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Originally published: New York : Free Press, 2018.
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Tucker Carlson tells the truth about the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky boxes. They have total contempt for you. "They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate," Carlson writes, "as something outdated they can profit from. When it fails, they're gone." In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords. Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. The patchouli-scented hand-wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. They'll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. "The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don't." Our leaders are fools, Carlson concludes, "unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship." But in the signature and witty style that viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight have come to enjoy, his book answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course?
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Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting “thee,” to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait of offenses most foul. Mischievous readers will delight in learning how to time your impressions for the biggest laugh, why quoting Shakespeare was poor form, and why curses hurled at women were almost always about sex (and why we shouldnt be surprised). Bringing her signature “exhilarating and contagious” enthusiasm (Boston Globe), this is a celebration of one of historys naughtiest periods, when derision was an art form.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Carlson, T. (2019). Ship of fools: how a selfish ruling class is bringing America to the brink of revolution (Large print edition.). Thorndike Press Large Print.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Carlson, Tucker. 2019. Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. Thorndike Press Large Print.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Carlson, Tucker. Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution Thorndike Press Large Print, 2019.

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Carlson, Tucker. Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution Large print edition., Thorndike Press Large Print, 2019.

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