From the Back Cover:
"Jane Kramer has bravely gone into the belly of a beast which is alive and well in America and which most of us prefer not to acknowledge. We avoid looking where she takes us, in Lone Patriot, at our peril."
-- Bob Kerrey
"By turns hilarious and harrowing, Lone Patriot offers one of the most richly textured and deeply affecting narratives of Jane Kramer's remarkable career."
-- Lawrence Wechsler
"The American militia movement would seem to be an unlikely subject for Jane Kramer, the wonderful European correspondent for The New Yorker. But she has summoned all her formidable intelligence, usually lavished on Paris and Berlin, to describe some angry Americans in rural Washington State. The results are brilliant. Jane Kramer is a poet of discontent and delusion, and in Whatcom County she has found a great subject."
-- Ward Just
"Jane Kramer has a genius for making troubled people in troubled situations come alive. Because she is insatiably curious, full of subtle insights and wonderfully well-informed, she understands obsessions, the ideas behind the obsessions and the historical forces behind the ideas. But the victims of obsession interest her even more and she writes about them as vividly as any novelist. She is also a brilliant stylist - witty, ironic, alert to every nuance, utterly unfooled, and with that uniquely New Yorker gift for talking with great elegance out of the side of her mouth. To my mind, Jane Kramer is one of the best writers in America and Lone Patriot is one of her best books."
-- A.Alvarez
About the Author:
Jane Kramer has written The New Yorker’s “Letter from Europe” for more than twenty years. She is the author of eight previous books, among them The Last Cowboy, Europeans, and The Politics of Memory, and has been the recipient of many awards, including a National Book Award. With Europeans, she became the first woman, and the first American, to win the Prix Européen de l’Essai “Charles Veillon,” Europe’s most prestigious award for nonfiction. She divides her time between Europe and New York.
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