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Eugene McCarthy s love for America has blessed us with political hope, and as a poet, his fine poetry provides a nourishment for our imaginations, poetry s critical role in culture. McCarthy captures our essence in this sometimes rough transition of this latter part of our 20th century, parts he has sheparded as U.S. Senator, presidential candidate, and poet.

Essays on Life Beyond the Beltway (i.e., actual) from rural anywhere (actually, western Virginia), sometimes funny, always pithy observations on the ways we might wish to live draw from the folk who already (and have always) live that way.

Near twenty years ago Gene McCarthy wrote his first book about the going-on in Virginia's Rappahannock County. He was green back then. But a few decades of discussions at the F.T. General Store have seasoned him to life where nothin's as simple as it seems. Finding merkles isn't simple. On occasion Sen. McCarthy has found these tasty mushrooms in the wild. But just as often he's begged for them. Any day now McCarthy might master his Lynch's Fo...

This large format (8.5x11 inch, landscape), heavily illustrated work (107 drawings by Christopher Millis)is a humorous exploration of the use (and mis-use) of metaphore in the language of American politics and society at large.

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In HARD YEARS Sen. Eugene McCarthy gazes into the dismal abyss of the disastrous times from the 1960's through the 1979's explains what went wrong, why, and how we might avoid repeating those catastrophes. Contrary to those engaged in perpetually whistling past the graveyard, McCarthy finds no solace in notions our political system is proved effective because the institutions of the political process, government, law, and the press clanked and...

This is a charming and lively collection of poems about a Minnesota life. Growing up, family, rural life and community...this is about McCarthy himself. His love for America has blessed us with political hope, and as a poet, his fine poetry provides a nourishment for our imaginations, poetry s critical role in culture.

The authors, both of whom have been deeply involved in shorter workweek policy debates, argue that reduced work hours are an effective means to full employment, improved income distribution, and a stronger consumer market--in addition to promising a better life to the contemporary American family.