http://members.scotsman.com/clortho.cfm?going_to=http%3A//news.scotsman.com/index.cfm%3Fid%3D988422004Retro v Metro: The book which divides America
Alex Massie
MEL Gibson and The Passion of the Christ are retro; Michael Moore and Fahrenheit 9/11 are metro. Smart kids are metro; smart bombs are retro. California is metro and Alabama retro. Newt Gingrich and George Bush are retro; Hillary Clinton and John Kerry metro.
On the one hand you have metropolitan, tolerant sophistication; on the other rural backwardness, religious superstition and narrow-minded intolerance. One America eats french fries; the other freedom fries. This is the reality of modern America.
Or so says John Sperling, author of a new book, The Great Divide: Retro vs Metro America, which has been heavily trailed by advertisements in the New York Times and Washington Post , declaring itself "a book that deepens our understanding of America as a polarised society".
Mr Sperling, a lifelong Democrat and a billionaire who founded the private, for-profit University of Phoenix, has written what he said this week was "the first coffee-table political book that we hoped would be widely read by people who never read political books". Mr Sperling said he hoped his book would lead to a "reformation of the Democratic party".
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