| The Virtues of Whitebread Contributor(s): Long, Rob (Author) |
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ISBN: 1504690516 ISBN-13: 9781504690515 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $68.40 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: May 2017 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism - Humor | Topic - Politics - Social Science | Demography |
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| Publisher Description: Former Cheers executive producer Rob Long makes the case for preserving the traditions of "whitebread" America--uncomfortable formalities, awkward silences and all.In Los Angeles, you can buy a hot dog wrapped in a tortilla and topped with kimchi. "It's about as perfect a metaphor for twenty-first-century America as you can find," writes Rob Long. "It's also pretty tasty." But as wonderful as today's multicultural American kaleidoscope is--and it is wonderful--there's something to be said for America's waning WASP culture, or as Long calls it, being "whitebread." To be whitebread is to be unironically normcore: to assume a formality of dress and manners, to embrace awkward silences, and to carry seemingly obsolete traditions from generation to generation.Long, the Emmy-nominated executive producer of Cheers and creator of Sullivan & Son, lays out his argument for being "whitebread by choice" in this tongue-in-cheek paean to the tried, true, and very unhip ways of whitebread America. |
Contributor Bio(s): Long, Rob: - Rob Long is a screenwriter and television producer in Hollywood, best known as an Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated executive producer of Cheers and as the creator of Sullivan & Son. He's also the founder of the conservative website Ricochet. During the Clinton presidency, he famously published an anonymous political satire column in National Review titled Letters from Al. He is now a contributing editor for National Review. His previous books are Conversations with My Agent and Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke. |