{"product_id":"delusions-of-grandeur-american-essays-paperback-softback-9781496212108","title":"Delusions of Grandeur; American Essays (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496212108","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDelusions of Grandeur\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAmerican Essays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJoey Franklin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496212108\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e222 pages, 1 illustration\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Before opening \u003ci\u003eDelusions of Grandeur\u003c\/i\u003e, I was certain I was fatigued of ruminating on these large ideas. Upon closing it, I understood something new about myself: I didn’t want to step away from these topics. In fact, I craved discussion on them-but I needed a thoughtful, reflective voice to wade with me through my own comfortable delusions. I needed a calm, self-critical, and genuinely funny voice that helped me to see myself.\"-Kate Madsen, \u003ci\u003eBrevity\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Franklin writes like a novelist, reasons like a theologian, and reminds us that getting it \u003ci\u003eright\u003c\/i\u003e, in both language and life, is all that matters in the end.”-Dennis Covington, author of \u003ci\u003eSalvation on Sand Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“I’m a serious admirer of Joey Franklin’s work, and this book gathers some of his very best and most culturally and politically relevant, nuanced, balanced, and penetrating essays-which, properly and widely read, might actually deepen and widen the conversation, at least a little.”-David Shields, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"With candor, modesty, and a leavening of humor, he ponders sexual shame, dysfunctional families, class divisions, apocalyptic religion, and other difficult issues, inviting the reader to join him in the search for understanding.\"-Scott Russell Sanders, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Way of Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Over the course of these ten essays, Franklin does not simply dig into the classic pillars of the self, like gender or family; he also interrogates myriad other influences that contribute to his reality with an unflinching clarity, including class, intergenerational wealth and trauma, faith and fear, ambition and envy.”-Elena Passarello, author of \u003ci\u003eLet Me Clear My Throat\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAnimals Strike Curious Poses\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e “Removing the veil of his own misconceptions and training a floodlight on those of our shared society, Franklin unpacks notions of goodness, nakedness, perception and-with a true vitality of language-confronts the myths we both inherit and perpetuate. All delusions aside, this is a work of greatness, grand in spirit and faith, willing to upend artifice and invention for the sake of empathy. This is a writer concerned with truth and healing, alive with a sober and dazzling sense of hope.”-Jericho Parms, author of \u003ci\u003eLost Wax\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“With certainty undergirded by fact, and wisdom that never overreaches, these essays are grand (and not at all delusional).”-Debra Monroe, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Unsentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“In the excellent essays of \u003ci\u003eDelusions of Grandeur\u003c\/i\u003e, Joey Franklin perfects, ages, then, cures, perhaps, the genre’s full extension and expression, engineering whole new worried and weathered precincts of prose genius. Here, the maturation of the micro-memoir. Here, the fine calculus of the personal essay. Here, the literal reinvention of literary journalism. These big-shouldered essays are riveting, I-beams bolted and bolting, hither and yon, spot lit and spot on.”-Michael Martone, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Moon Over Wapakoneta\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrooding\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Joey Franklin dives into difficult topics-poverty and wealth, masculinity, race, whiteness, privilege, parenting, linguistic and regional bias, and what it means to be and do good in the world-with thoughtful grace. This book is a Montaignian mash-up relevant for twenty-first century readers, each essay braided with equal parts fascinating research and deep vulnerability, an admirable union of brain and heart.”-Sonya Huber, author of \u003ci\u003ePain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"With certainty undergirded by fact, and wisdom that never overreaches, these essays are grand (and not at all delusional)\"-Debra Monroe, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Unsentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDelusions of Grandeur\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Joey Franklin examines the dreams and delusions of America’s most persistent mythologies-including the beliefs in white supremacy and rugged individualism and the problems of toxic masculinity and religious extremism-as they reveal themselves in the life of a husband and father fast approaching forty. With prose steeped in research and a playful, lyric attention to language, Franklin asks candid questions about what it takes to see clearly as a citizen, a parent, a child, a neighbor, and a human being.\u003cbr\u003e How should a white father from the suburbs talk with his sons about the death of Trayvon Martin? What do video games like \u003ci\u003eFortnite\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMinecraft\u003c\/i\u003e reveal about our appetites for destruction? Is it possible for Americans to celebrate bootstrap pioneer history while also lamenting the slavery that made it possible? How does the American tradition of exploiting cheap labor create a link between coal mining and plasma donation in southeast Ohio?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart cultural critique, part parental confessional, \u003ci\u003eDelusions of Grandeur\u003c\/i\u003e embraces the notion that the personal is always political, and reveals important, if sometimes uncomfortable, truths about our American obsessions with race, class, religion, and family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Delusions of Grandeur: An Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Toy Soldiers \u003cbr\u003e Girl Fight \u003cbr\u003e Good Enough \u003cbr\u003e Stuck \u003cbr\u003e White Trash \u003cbr\u003e Not in My Backyard \u003cbr\u003e Thursday Night Lights \u003cbr\u003e The Full Montaigne \u003cbr\u003e Worry Lines \u003cbr\u003e Apocalypse, Now? \u003cbr\u003e A Note on Notes \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599892508952,"sku":"9781496212108","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/delusions-of-grandeur-american-essays-paperback-softback-9781496212108","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}