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Title	:	Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
Author	:	Garrison Keillor
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	August 29th 2006 by Penguin Books (first published July 1st 2004)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Politics. Humor. Autobiography. Memoir. Writing. Essays. Biography. Religion

Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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In this thoughtful, deeply personal work, one of the nation's best-loved voices takes the plunge into politics and comes up with a book that has had all of America talking. Here, with great heart, supple wit, and a dash of anger, Garrison Keillor describes the simple democratic values-the Golden Rule, the obligation to defend the weak against the powerful, and others- that define his hard-working Midwestern neighbors and that today's Republicans seem determined to subvert. A reminiscence, a political tract, and a humorous meditation, Homegrown Democrat is an entertaining, refreshing addition to today's rancorous political debate.

* A New York Times bestseller
* Updated and revised with a new introduction for the 2006 midterm elections
* A Featured Alternate Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club

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Original Title:	Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
ISBN:	0143037684 (ISBN13: 9780143037682)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.garrisonkeillor.com/homegrown-democrat/

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Keillor has a great sense of humour, a real knack for language, and values I identify with. However ... a whole BOOK on Democrat - Republican bickering? This is asking a lot of even an American reader, but for those of us in the rest of the world ... as the Beatles sang - It's all too much!

Garrison Keillor is a superb writer as he uses his wit to make his point, he entertains while he opines. He also somehow managed to take many of my thoughts and put them into a cohesive treatise on what we older Democrats feel about these new Republicans. This was written during the 2nd Bush's presidency, I can only imagine what Keillor would say abo Donald Trump.

Garrison Keillor, I love you."The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, see-through fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, hobby cops, misanthropic frat boys, lizardskin cigar monkeys, jerktown romeos, ninja dittoheads, the shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, cheese merchants, cat stranglers, taxi dancers, grab0ass executives, gun fetishists,

I am a great fan of this author. I feel he has the values and the psyche of the people of the midwest down pat. His tales from Lake Woebegone are both humorous and thought provoking. This book is a departure from his usual genre. In the spirit of full disclosure, I must confess that I am a Democrat from the midwest. This is not so much a rant against the Republicans but an essay of what Democrats stand for. I know it gace me pause for reflection and I think that was his goal. I can be a very

Keillor discusses, in his understated and wry way, how his upbringing in the Lutheran church and the basic Midwestern values he grew up with, have led him to become a solidly liberal Democrat. This book is the counter-argument to the right-wing attacks on "liberal elites" and the conservative assumption that the people in "real America" hold conservative, Republican principals. From that perspective, I would recommend it.The caveat is that, while Keillor is always respectful of Republicans as

Garrison is awfully nostalgic in this book, but at a time when I couldn't believe how bizarre our values felt, somebody was talking about his feelings. And I was stunned to discover it was Garrison. I can hear Prairie Home Companion for only so long before I get the schtick. But I had no idea he cared about policy in a way that embodied a whole region in Minneapolis. I practically discovered the northeast with this book, but I was also comforted that it was ok to have values that were at once

Keillor takes a common sense view of things and it is much appreciated in in these times of hard line partisan biases.