{"product_id":"the-great-oklahoma-swindle-9781496209986","title":"The Great Oklahoma Swindle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRussell Cobb's The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of Flyover Country that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Great Oklahoma Swindle\u003c\/i\u003e is that rarest thing: a treasure well gotten. Cobb has all the gifts of a storyteller, a journalist, an ethicist, and an anthropologist. The substance of the book is modern tragedy, but the sense of the book is the joy of heartfelt inquiry and analysis.”—Rivka Galchen, author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Labors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Russell Cobb has done for his hometown of Tulsa and state of Oklahoma what James Joyce did for his Dublin and Ireland in \u003ci\u003eUlysses\u003c\/i\u003e, populated with unforgettable characters. Cobb accomplishes this through storytelling, every page glowing with truth and compassion.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of \u003ci\u003eRed Dirt: Growing Up Okie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This unflinching look at Oklahoma’s singular past helpfully fills in lesser-known aspects of the historical record.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Great Oklahoma Swindle \u003c\/i\u003eshows that Oklahoma's story is all-American in a compressed timeline. That Cobb stands toe to toe with his state and never blinks makes this project a compelling read.\"—Matt Sutherland, \u003ci\u003eForeword Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Great Oklahoma Swindle\u003c\/i\u003e is a selective window to the historical and cultural geographies of the wider American South and southern Plains. . . . For the geographer and layperson alike, it is an outstanding, timely, and accessible primer for better understanding how much the U.S. is shaped by the converging legacies of neoliberal governance, settler colonialism, and systemic racism. Loving a place is not always easy, but Russell Cobb’s \u003ci\u003eThe Great Oklahoma Swindle\u003c\/i\u003e sets an exemplary and thought-provoking model for other writers to follow in the twenty-first century American scene.\"—Robert Briwa, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Geography\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Great Oklahoma Swindle\u003c\/i\u003e unwraps the states racism, stereotypes, and fraud to add to the moderate amount of Oklahoma historical literature in a much-needed progressive review and liberal discussion of Oklahoma in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\"—Lydia A. Perez, \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Oklahoma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A native of Oklahoma, Russell Cobb's research reveals his love of the state with a critical analysis.\"—Vernon Schmid, \u003ci\u003eRoundup Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Great Oklahoma Swindle\u003c\/i\u003e should be required reading for every citizen of the state, especially schoolchildren. As a human geographer and writer of history, I am truly impressed by how Cobb has unwrapped the exaggerations, stereotypes, and hidden history of Oklahoma to present a refreshingly accurate account of this puzzling place that I love, warts and all.”—Michael Wallis, best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Best Land under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A swindle is a fraudulent scheme or action taken by those with the intention of using deception to deprive someone of money or possessions, sometimes just dignity. Russell Cobb has penned one of the most direct, frank, rough, rustic, reasoned, and realistic approaches to a deep dark side of what was intended to be deep dark secrets at the core of Oklahoma’s red soil, red soul, and redneck essence with regard to its grit, greed, grandeur, and contrived gravitas, based in faith, farce, and fraud. I found it profoundly and profanely revealing and educational. It should be required reading for every serious student of history or those who love the truth regardless of how painful or pitiful the honest truth can be.”—Rev. Carlton Pearson, progressive spiritual teacher and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel of Inclusion\u003c\/i\u003e, the subject of the Netflix film \u003ci\u003eCome Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e 1. Voyage to Dementiatown\u003cbr\u003e 2. You’re Not Doing Fine, Oklahoma\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Road to Hell in Indian Territory\u003cbr\u003e 4. Where the Hell Is Oklahoma Anyway?\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Long Goodbye to Oklahoma’s Small-Town Jews\u003cbr\u003e 6. Okies in the Promised Land\u003cbr\u003e 7. Among the Tribe of the Wannabes\u003cbr\u003e 8. Backward, Christian Soldier\u003cbr\u003e 9. Keeping Oklahoma Weird\u003cbr\u003e 10. Cursed?\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Fire That Time\u003cbr\u003e 12. Uncommon Commons\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409223885143,"sku":"9781496209986","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496209986.jpg?v=1730506021","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-great-oklahoma-swindle-9781496209986","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}