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Ebook About What does the future hold for the Midwest? A vast stretch of fertile farmland bordering one of the largest concentrations of fresh water in the world, the Midwestern US seems ideally situated for the coming challenges of climate change. But it also sits at the epicenter of a massive economic collapse that many of its citizens are still struggling to overcome. The question of what the Midwest is (and what it will become) is nothing new. As Phil Christman writes in this idiosyncratic new book, ambiguity might be the region's defining characteristic. Taking a cue from Jefferson’s grid, the famous rectangular survey of the Old Northwest Territory that turned everything from Ohio to Wisconsin into square-mile lots, Christman breaks his exploration of Midwestern identity, past and present, into 36 brief, interconnected essays. The result is a sometimes sardonic, often uproarious, and consistently thought-provoking look at a misunderstood place and the people who call it home.Book Midwest Futures Review :
'Midwest Futures' by Phil Christman was a disappointing read. I found it aloof, elitist, and the 'humor' cited on the dust jacket as boorish. And I found it wanting from an intellectual perspective.One example, in Row 5 (Chapter 5) Mr. Christman shares his election eve reaction to the 2016 contest: half-baked plans to retreat to an armed rural homestead with his family. He then talks about the prepper movement, but a much more interesting discussion would have been to contrast and compare his initial thoughts to the ideas in 'The Benedict Option' by Rod Dreher.This book will appeal mainly to those who dislike the Midwest. As a native Midwesterner I looked forward to reading this new book. The tome starts off well enough, with reflections on the meaning of the Midwest as geographic descriptor. Christman followed this with a summation of how the Midwest thinks of itself, as well as how the rest of the country sees the Midwest. And Christman, to be fair, is capable of weaving together disparate threads to occasionally fashion an engaging point or two.However, I rated the book only two stars for three important reasons. First of all, it becomes evident as the book goes on that more than anything Christman wants to talk about politics. This of course would have been fine if his book included substantial analysis of Midwestern politics and political leaders. Instead, Christman strains to bend his narrative to fit an extreme left wing ideology, one that overwhelms his focus on the Midwest, and in fact leads him badly astray, to the point where his political diatribes constitute serious digressions from the arc of the book, indeed impede the book from achieving any real arc.Second, while Christman is well read, his background appears to be more in literature than in U.S. history, and the evidentiary standards of the historian are nowhere to be found in this volume. Christman falls victim to his own efforts to fit the book's narrative to his negative view of the United States and the Midwest. More specifically, Christman glosses over long and complex periods of U.S. history, summing them up in a couple of paragraphs and making grand claims based on scanty evidence. For example, starting on page 34 (and ending on page 36) Christman makes an argument that the U.S. has a standing army mostly because of one Arthur St. Clair. I have gone back and read this section several times and I can still not follow this argument. And it's not that there's not an interesting germ of an idea here, but that the author needs to support these ideas with evidence and give them space to develop.In another part of the book Christman claims that one of the motives for the destruction of the great bison herds was the elimination of Native peoples. He doesn't really say which specific people harbored this motive, or whether they consciously pursued it or whether it just fit into what he assumes was a master strategy of annihilation. Yes, the Native tribes of the Midwest were treated deplorably, and it's a provocative thesis to link that treatment with the destruction of the bison, but Christman does not support the argument with examples or evidence. The book is filled with these kinds of one-off statements. Many of these declarations are likely to satisfy those looking for a book to stoke partisan divisions and anger at the "other side," while leaving more dispassionate readers unsatisfied.Finally, my third main issue is the lack of editing. Christman can be a talented wordsmith and out-of-the-box thinker, but a good editor would have asked Mr. Christman to dial back some of the unproven assertions and claims in the book, to narrow and focus the book's overall aims, and to avoid long digressions into angry political diatribes. Although I found the writer's unproven assumptions about the ideology and politics of those who settled the Great Plains and the Midwest simplistic and overly polemical, I nevertheless believe that a good editor might have benefited the book very much. Overall, I hate to say it, but Midwest Futures betrays those looking for an objective and fair-minded account of the Midwest. Read Online Midwest Futures Download Midwest Futures Midwest Futures PDF Midwest Futures Mobi Free Reading Midwest Futures Download Free Pdf Midwest Futures PDF Online Midwest Futures Mobi Online Midwest Futures Reading Online Midwest Futures Read Online Phil Christman Download Phil Christman Phil Christman PDF Phil Christman Mobi Free Reading Phil Christman Download Free Pdf Phil Christman PDF Online Phil Christman Mobi Online Phil Christman Reading Online Phil ChristmanBest My Kind Of Man (HeavyLoad! Series Book 1) By JJ Harper
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