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Land of the Free: 2016 Election Issues and Trends
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Land of the Free examines the major issues and trends leading up to the 2016 Presidential election. Using graphs info graphics and charts it provides a voters guide on the issues opinions and trends shaping public opinion. Media coverage emphasize personalities and style over substantive issues such as spending priorities, minimum wage, perpetual war, crumbling infrastructure and economic inequality. Voter suppression and miltarization of police threaten democracy particularly in the South where culture and prosperity have stagnated for decades.
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John Taylor (b. 1952) is an American writer, critic, and translator who lives in France. Among his many translations of French, Italian, and Greek literature are books by Philippe Jaccottet, Pierre Chappuis, Pierre-Albert Jourdan, Georges Perros, Jacques Dupin, José-Flore Tappy, Pierre Voélin, Catherine Colomb, Lorenzo Calogero, Franca Mancinelli, Alfredo de Palchi, and Elias Petropoulos. About the latter Greek writer, he has written Harsh Out of Tenderness: The Greek Poet and Urban Folklorist Elias Petropoulos. Taylor's translations have been awarded grants and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, Pro Helvetia, and the Sonia Raiziss Charitable Foundation. He is the author of several volumes of short prose and poetry, most recently The Dark Brightness, Grassy Stairways, Remembrance of Water & Twenty-Five Trees, and a "double book" co-authored with Pierre Chappuis, A Notebook of Clouds & A Notebook of Ridges.
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