{"product_id":"the-great-man-theory-9781635578720","title":"The Great Man Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom acclaimed, Whiting Award-winning author Teddy Wayne, the hilarious, incisive, yet deeply poignant story of a liberal armchair-revolutionary desperate to save America from itself\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePaul is a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, a divorced but doting Brooklyn father, and a self-desc-ribed \"curmudgeonly crank\" cataloging his resentment of the priorities of modern life in a book called \u003ci\u003eThe Luddite Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e. Outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, he is determined to better the future for his young daughter, one aggrieved lecture at a time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShockingly, others aren't very receptive to Paul's scoldings. His child grows distant, preferring superficial entertainment to her father's terrarium and anti-technological tutelage. His careerist students are less interested than ever in what he has to say, and his last remaining friends appear ready to ditch him. To make up for lost income, he moonlights as a ride-share driver and moves in with his elderly mother, whose third-act changes confound and upset him. As one indignity follows the next, and Paul's disaffection with his circumstances and society mounts, he concocts a dramatic plan to right the world's wrongs and give himself a more significant place in it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDyspeptically funny, bubbling over with insights into America's cultural landscape and a certain type of cast-aside man who wants to rectify it, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Man Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is the work of a brilliant, original writer at the height of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781635578720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Teddy Wayne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42132519682229,"sku":"9781635578720","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_671ae754-45fa-45c0-8fb4-33a7eb0731ee.jpg?v=1652814128","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-great-man-theory-9781635578720","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}