{"product_id":"better-off-without-em-9781451616668","title":"Better Off Without 'Em","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"As if Kevin Phillips's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Theocracy\u003c\/i\u003e were being narrated by \u003ci\u003eRolling\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStone\u003c\/i\u003e's Matt Taibbi,\" Chuck Thompson's \"viciously funny and thoroughly tasteless\" examination of Southern secession was one of the most controversial books of the year (\u003ci\u003eWashington Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eChuck Thompson--dubbed \"savagely funny\" by the New York Times and \"wickedly entertaining\" by the San Francisco Chronicle--spent two years traveling the American South to determine whether, as he'd long suspected but not yet proven, the whole country might be better off letting Dixieland make good on its two-hundred-years-old threat to secede.\u003c\/b\u003e The result is a long overdue and serious inquiry into national divides that is deliberately provocative and uproariously funny while making a compelling case for \"a kind of no-fault divorce for nation-states: no hard feelings, just two adults who can't quite make the relationship work, shaking hands and walking away\" (The Oxford American).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-341185\"\u003eChuck Thompson\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/16\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781451616668\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 145161666X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-TRV\"\u003eTravel\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-TRV025070\"\u003eUnited States | South | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL032000\"\u003eEssays\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL042020\"\u003ePolitical Ideologies | Conservatism \u0026amp; Liberalism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChuck Thompson is the author of the widely reviewed political screed \u003ci\u003eBetter Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the comic memoirs \u003ci\u003eSmile When You're Lying\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTo Hellholes and Back\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eOutside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePolitico\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMen's Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44536911036653,"sku":"9781451616668","price":17.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_fd3e9ab0-eaad-458c-8df3-df0f4d7909da.jpg?v=1701432863","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/better-off-without-em-9781451616668","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}