Jim Hightower

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This paper takes a look at Jim Hightower's book, "There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos", and examines his views about conservatives (Republicans) and liberals (Democrats). The paper also considers the views that conservatives and liberals would have of Hightower and explains Hightower's view of the difference between populism and liberalism.

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"A Texas born writer Hightower ingrains his book with the dry wit of an experienced man and goes about dissecting bit by bit all that he sees wrong with corporate America. He does not pull any punches and criticizes directly what he feels is the problem with the country. As a populist he is proud and takes on the real power in this country-corporate money. He decided to write on the corporate corruption of Congress, corporate polluters, corporate media, corporate welfare and the gooberheads that get along with them. He wrote critically but not with rage, rather he uses s dry, humorous wit that has the reader in fits while feeling deep down that what they are laughing at is more a reason to cry about. (John Nichols 1997)"

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