Title

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos.

Description

An account of American politics including such topics as the two-party system, Wall Street, Bill Clinton and others.

Identifier

683139

60187662

Creator

Hightower, Jim

Format

1st ed.

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1997

Program air date: December 21, 1997

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Bodacious. Denison, Tex.--hometown. Editor Texas Observer. Fred Harris--1976. Tom Harkin. Bill Clinton's call in 1994. Who are the Munsons. Aug 1967--L.A. Senator Yarborough. Supported Tom Harkin. Texas Railroad Commission. Ag. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Power and conventional wisdom, corporations, parks, sports stars, values, employment, media. Notes: "Conventional wisdom," "Nike," "U of M-Nike," "Reebok," "Nike-Vietnamese," "front tooth," "sports stadiums," "Byron Dorgan," "Tom Harkins," "'92 Convention," "upchucked on their shoes," "Miller Beer," "No VCR, CD, doorbell, call waiting," "Cincinnati grandmother," "Germany shorter work week," "40 hour work week joke," "two weakling Presidents," "the Doug Jones average," "12,000 homeless," "Greed," "CEOs," "ATT Bob Allen," "IBM," "Dial," "Boss/SOB," "Nick Nicholas," "Ovitz," "corporate boards," "Japanese," "Earl Long," "600,000 superrich own 42% of everything," "prison labor," "Mike Kinsley," "Jeff Cohen CNN," "Tom Delay," "60 Min.," "television screen," "the debates," "Dan Perkins," "the cartoonist at Hartford," "true media bias," "Diane S., Sam D.," "Buchanan," "New Democrats, moderates," "populism of the people," "hadn't inhaled," "Kmart," "George McClellan," "6 of 10 didn't vote; 2 and fraction voted Rep.," "Dukakis 1988 Austin," "Hightower church--Sacred Heart Aug 1981," "Nancy Davis, Robert Robinson," "greatest sin, love of money," "greed," "Pat Robertson," "God is a Democrat," "7-) Barton Springs," "Daddy," "Woody Guthrie," "Clinton pet dog," "change is coming," "organized labor."

Subject

"American wit and humor."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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