Wingnuts: A Field Guide to Everyday Extremism in America - Softcover

Slater, David Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620065061 ISBN 13: 9781620065068

Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc., 2021

Synopsis

Do NOT read this book if you want your passionate convictions admired or your enemy’s stupidity mocked. Do NOT read this book if you have emotionally charged reactions to hot-button topics like trigger warnings, cancel culture, patriotism, fake news, internet thought police, and gun control.

But if you ARE ready to think rationally and calmly about the opinions you hold as well as those held by your antagonists, it’s time to read Wingnuts.

Pithy, humorous, and chock-full of shockingly commonsense wisdom, David Michael Slater strikes blow after devastating blow against the unreasonable thinking that now dominates our most critical political & cultural conversations.

Conservatives and liberals, righties and lefties, Democrats and Republicans, all come in for an equal-opportunity flogging in this book on political freedom. In it, Slater identifies forty vitally important social ideas and compellingly articulates how and why they’ve been hijacked by three types of extremists.

If his clarion call for a return to compromise in “the radical center” inspires enough people, it might just save democracy itself.

About this title

About the Author

David Michael Slater is a celebrated teacher and author of over 20 works of fiction and non-fiction. David's We're Doing It Wrong: 25 Ideas in Education That Just Don't Work-And How to Fix Them, a thought-provoking dissection of the issues plaguing American public schools, was lauded by dozens of experts in the field as "a must read," and "the most important common sense approach to fixing our public schools." David was named Educator of the Year when he taught in the Beaverton, Oregon, schools and now teaches in Reno. A number of David's works of fiction are in development for film and TV. You can learn more about David and his work at www.davidmichaelslater.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sunbury Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620065061
• ISBN 13: 9781620065068
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136