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Michael Crichton and the Heritage of Inventionof Michael Crichton in direct conversation with the theories of Michael Polanyi (an early advocate of neoliberal policy). Like Polanyi, Crichton deconstructs social planning and champions uncertainty. This manufactured uncertainty can be utilized as a weapon to undercut political engagement with iss

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Tom Clancy and the Liberal Family Treeisreading obfuscates the complex legacy of liberalism in the United States. Placing Clancy in dialogue with the ascendance of neoconservatism (a hybrid of traditionally liberal and conservative values), this chapter argues that Clancy’s unsettled prose does not reflect a cleanly bifurcated society.

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Dean Koontz and the Problem with Powerh . rooting out Power in its nefarious webs (internal and external) while . fostering personal power through entrepreneurial selfhood. This paradox, parsed out in detail in the preceding chapters, informs the Foucauldian character of Dean Koontz’s thrillers. Is the goal of American liberalism to abo

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and given current conflicts, where might it go from here?.Fo.Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 .tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback. The book focuses on cultural shifts as t

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Introduction: Popular Paperbacks and the Transformation of American Liberalism, specific texts due to their clarity, accessibility, and coherence. These traits remain useful indices of intelligibility. As this introduction seeks to illustrate, popular paperbacks serve as ideal sites for tracking the readability—or incongruity—of political sentiments in the contemporary United States.

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Tom Clancy and the Liberal Family Treed of traditionally liberal and conservative values), this chapter argues that Clancy’s unsettled prose does not reflect a cleanly bifurcated society. Rather, it reflects a confused liberal imagination.