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True West

Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America

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By: Betsy Gaines Quammen
Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
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From the Northern Rockies to the Southwest deserts, Betsy Gaines Quammen explores how myths shape our identities, heighten polarizations, and fracture our shared understanding of the world around us. As she investigates the origins and effects of myths of the American West, Gaines Quammen travels through small towns and big cities, engaging people and building relationships at every stop.

Misperceptions about land, politics, liberty, and self-determination threaten the well-being of people and communities across the country, and Gaines Quammen interrogates it all as she seeks to reconcile the anger and misunderstandings that continue to be fueled by the West's enduring myths and complex history.

Whether sitting down with a militia member seeking to protect his rural Utah town from Antifa or talking with grassroots organizers working across ideological divides, Gaines Quammen brings to life connections and contradictions that shape our politics and our lives far beyond the West.

©2023 Betsy Gaines Quammen (P)2024 Tantor Conservatism & Liberalism Ideologies & Doctrines Nationalism Politics & Government
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Very misleading, title and book description.

I thought I was going to learn about the history of the west, but instead was given a very left, leaning overview of today's political climate of the west. I will say that the argument that we should all listen to one another more and look for commonalities was a good message. But it was strangely contrasted by the vitriol of an obviously far left, leaning author.

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