Alexander C O Evans

The Myth Gap

• Author(s): Alex Evans

• Categories: Political Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2017-01-12
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• Publisher: Random House

Why, with absolutely no idea what Brexit actually meant, did the UK vote for Brexit? Why, rather than vote for the best-qualified candidate ever to stand as US President, did voters opt for a reality TV star with no political experience? In both cases, the winning side promised change and offered hope. They told a story voters longed to hear. And in the absence of greater, more unifying narratives, then true or not, voters plumped for the best story available. Once upon a time our society was rich in stories. They brought us together and helped us to understand the world and ourselves. We called them myths. Today, we have a myth gap – a vacuum that Alex Evans argues powerfully and persuasi...

Hearings

• Author(s): United States. Congress Senate

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1939
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Conditions of Government Contracts. Hearings Before Subcommittee No.1 ... on S. 1032, H.R. 3331, and H.R. 6395

• Author(s): United States. U.S. Congress. House. Committee on the judiciary

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1940
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Purchase of Supplies and the Making of Contracts by the United States. Hearing Before a Subcommittee..on S. 1032...May 13, 18, 19, 1939.(76-1).

• Author(s): United States. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on education and labor

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1939
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Hutchinson's Washington and Georgetown Directory

• Categories: Alexandria (Va.)

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1892
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• Publisher: Unknown

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