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The People's Choice: A Cautionary Tale is a 1995 novel written by American journalist Jeff Greenfield.In the novel, United States'President-elect MacArthur Foyle dies after the general election, but before the Electoral College has a chance to vote him into office, and the media and the election process are swung into chaos.
A Nation of Immigrants (ISBN 978-0-06-144754-9) is a 1958 book on American immigration by then U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts.. The name of the book is a reference to the fact that the United States is a country whose population is predominantly made up of immigrants and their recent descendants, who settled the country following the European colonization of the Americas and the ...
The powerful mother is a common pivotal figure in immigrant fiction, just as the sensitive child, torn between this matriarchal authority and a weaker, less adaptive father, often assumes the book's central consciousness. Paule Marshall's Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959), fits the pattern, with its tense mother-daughter duo, Silla and Selina ...
Goodfellow was inspired to write Hostile Environment after the 2016 Brexit vote, where she observed a narrative that the U.K. was becoming something new or that the inhospitality to immigrants was new. Goodfellow wished to investigate the history of immigration in the U.K. and dispel this narrative. [4] The book was published in November 2019. [1]
Not all immigrants who become citizens will vote. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that in the 2022 election, native-born citizen voter turnout was 53.4%, exceeding the 41.4% turnout of naturalized ...
The novel was later published in book format by Doubleday in 1906. [2] The book realistically depicts working-class poverty, immigrant struggle, lack of social support or welfare, harsh living and dangerous working conditions, generating hopelessness or cynicism and cruelty among the powerless. These elements are contrasted with the deeply ...
For many immigrants, voting for Donald Trump and the Republican Party represented a focus on issues like inflation, the economy, and education—priorities that, to many immigrant voters, seemed ...
Migrant literature focuses on the social contexts in the migrants' country of origin which prompt them to leave, on the experience of migration itself, on the mixed reception which they may receive in the country of arrival, on experiences of racism and hostility, and on the sense of rootlessness and the search for identity which can result from displacement and cultural diversity.