{"id":541,"date":"2010-08-26T19:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T13:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2010-08-26T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T13:11:08","slug":"timothy-egan-on-the-know-nothings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/26\/timothy-egan-on-the-know-nothings\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy Egan on the Know-Nothings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s NY Times has an excellent piece by Timothy Egan about the current Know-Nothing movement in the country, and its dangerous implications:<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Building a Nation of Know-Nothings\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopinionator.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F08%2F25%2Fbuilding-a-nation-of-know-nothings%2F#?secret=WqjD2fgvHf\" data-secret=\"WqjD2fgvHf\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat he does best is summarize some of the most ridiculous claims of this fake movement, a bedraggled dog trotting along the heels of the Tea Party parade. Obama is being targeted as &#8220;guilty&#8221; for the failure of bailouts that occurred during the Bush administration, and even the success of some of these bailouts (that personally I have mixed feelings about, but you have to read a book as detailed as Sorkin&#8217;s Too Big to Fail to understand what led to some of these bailouts) is being ignored\u2014such as the resurgence of the American auto industry\u2014in a clamor against the fraudulent Socialism claims.<br \/>\nTimothy Egan&#8217;s <em>The Worst Hard Time<\/em> (2005) is an amazing book about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His new book, <em>The Big Burn<\/em> (2009), is on my wannaread list. He&#8217;s one of our best nonfiction writers, and is particularly good on issues of the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s NY Times has an excellent piece by Timothy Egan about the current Know-Nothing movement in the country, and its dangerous implications: What he does best is summarize some of the most ridiculous claims of this fake movement, a bedraggled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/26\/timothy-egan-on-the-know-nothings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}