Powell, Jim

Attempts to explain the philosophy of postmodernism, and looks at what various postmodern thinkers have to say about art and architecture, power and knowledge, the media, time-space compression, and other topics.

An in-depth introduction to the literary theory known as deconstruction, presented as an illustrated conversation between a coyote, Mark Twain, and a woman named Uma about the ideas of philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Argues that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs deepened the Great Depression, slowed economic growth, and hurt America's future by expanding the federal government, raising taxes, developing Social Security, and making new labor laws.