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.
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.
Russell Cobb is an associate professor in Latin American studies and creative writing at the University of Alberta. His nonfiction writing has won many national and regional awards. He is the editor of The Paradox of Authenticity in a Globalized World and the reporter of the This American Life story that served as the basis for the Netflix film Come Sunday. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, Slate, and the Nation, and on NPR.
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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
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
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