BYE BYE, MISS AMERICAN EMPIRE: NEIGHBORHOOD PATRIOTS, BACKCOUNTRY REBELS, AND THEIR UNDERDOG CRUSADES TO REDRAW AMERICA’S POLITICAL MAP

Book ID/图书代码： 03008010B37208

English Summary/英文概要： It’s been almost a century and a half since a critical mass of Americans believed that secession was an American birthright. But breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the nation. From Vermont to Alaska, activists driven by all manner of motives want to form new states-and even new nations.
So, just what’s happening out there? The American Empire is dying, says Bill Kauffman in this incisive, eye-opening investigation into modern-day secession-the next radical idea poised to enter mainstream discourse. And those rising up to topple that empire are a surprising mix of conservatives, liberals, regionalists, and independents who-from movement to movement-may share few political beliefs but who have one thing in common: a sense that our nation has grown too large, and too powerfully centralized, to stay true to its founding principles.
Bye Bye, Miss American Empire traces the historical roots of the secessionist spirit, and introduces us to the often radical, sometimes quixotic, and highly charged movements that want to decentralize and re-localize power.
During the George W. Bush administration, frustrated liberals talked secession back to within hailing distance of the margins of national debate, a place it had not occupied since 1861. Now, secessionist voices on the left and right and everywhere in between are amplifying. Writes Kauffman, "The noise is the sweet hum of revolution, of subjects learning how to be citizens, of people shaking off . . . their Wall Street and Pentagon overlords and taking charge of their lives once more."
Engaging, illuminating, even sometimes troubling, Bye Bye, Miss American Empire is a must-read for those taking the pulse of the nation.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 早在一個半世紀之前，絕大多數的美國民眾就已經充分意識到，這片國家熱土之上所流淌著的是生就自由的血液。我們不斷目睹著大大小小，規模迥異的分離運動如雨後春筍辦興盛起來，東起佛蒙特，西至阿拉斯加，追求不同目的的人們不斷試圖以州甚至國家的形式從美國之中脫離出來。
圍繞著當代興起的分離運動，本書展開了細緻嚴謹地剖析，於這本言辭犀利、見解讀到書中，比爾.考夫曼便一針見血地指出：「美利堅合眾國正逐漸隕落」.
但出人預料的是，那些正試圖顛覆這個國家的團體，實際上卻是由來自各個不同社會階層的人士所組成：保守派、自由派、地方主義者甚至還包括了無黨派人士；儘管持有各自不同的政見，但在一點問題上，他們卻保持著驚人的一致：聯邦政府正變得日益集權，組織規模也變得龐大臃腫，這一趨勢逐漸背離了當初這個國家所建立的初衷。
本書深入歷史，充分挖掘出分離主義的來龍去脈，其主旨便在於反對中央集權、力主還政於民，該運動不僅時常會表現地高調過激，同時亦極富堂吉訶德式的色彩。
回溯至上世紀老布什执政時期，對於當局深表不滿的自由人士便險些再一次將分離主義話題帶回到全民辯論的議題之中，而這一現象是自1861年以来從未有過的。現如今，無論在左翼右翼還是無黨派界，分離主義的聲音正於美國國內不斷得到加強。正如考夫曼所說「這代表了革命的號聲，代表了人們對於公民意義的重新審視，代表了民眾...挑戰華爾街以及政府當局，渴望再一次重塑自由的呼聲」. (ANDY)

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About the Author/作者介绍： 比尔•考夫曼（Bill Kauffman）著有9本书籍，包括获得了2003年国家“归属感”奖的《脱离》（Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette），以及入选美国图书馆协会2006年度最佳书籍之一的《美国，回家看看吧》（ Look Homeward, America）。他常常为华尔街报及美国保守党报写文章。他和家人住在纽约本土的吉内斯(Genesee)。

Bill Kauffman is the author of nine books, including Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette, which won the 2003 national "Sense of Place" award from Writers & Books, and Look Homeward, America, which the American Library Association named one of the best books of 2006. He writes frequently for the Wall Street Journal and the American Conservative and lives in his native Genesee County, New York, with his family.

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