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handmade34

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Mon Sep 4, 2017, 06:14 AM Sep 2017

"The Full Vermonty: Vermont in the Age of Trump" [View all]

https://vtdigger.org/2017/09/03/full-vermonty-throws-book-trump/#.Wa0z6LpFxv0

http://greenwriterspress.com/book/the-full-vermonty-vermont-in-the-age-of-trump/

"Vermont writer Bill Mares couldn’t believe anything could tear him apart as much as the open heart surgery he faced last fall.
Then Donald Trump was elected president on the Burlingtonian’s birthday.
“During the campaign, I had reread the Sinclair Lewis novel ‘It Can’t Happen Here,’ about a right-wing presidential victory,” Mares recalls. “Little did I expect that this book, written and set in Vermont in 1935, would be so prescient.”
Unable to march in protests while on the mend, the co-author of the state’s all-time best-selling humor book (1983’s “Real Vermonters Don’t Milk Goats”) commiserated with friend and syndicated political cartoonist Jeff Danziger..."


“Trump’s narcissism is enough to make any self-respecting Vermonter’s toes curl. The Full Vermonty is THE guide for finding ways to stay sane. The authors’ advice? Overcome Trump-Induced Anxiety Disorder by eating kale and drinking craft beer. Find your moral compass, if you lost it. Don’t watch CNN, do something radical—read a book. Become an activist. But whatever you do, BE a Vermonter; stay feisty and independent.” —Anne Galloway, VTDigger.org
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