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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Material Cultures in Canada, Material Cultures Now -- PART I: MATERIALITIES -- 1 The Work of the Beaver -- 2 Night in a Box: Anne Carson's Nox and the Materiality of Elegy -- 3 Maxims and Contraries: Notes from a Project in Process -- 4 The Geranium in the Window: One Plant's Literary Hardiness in the Canadian Imagination -- 5 Is It Still a Cinch?: The Transformational Properties of Objects in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing -- PART II: IMMATERIALITIES -- 6 Obama's Playlist: Materializing Transnational Desire at the CBC

By virtually all measures, polarization in Congress has increased dramatically over the course of the past two decades. Former Democratic Congressman Tom Allen lived through this era, serving six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Drawing from his own experiences in the Congressional trenches, he tackles the root cause of why Democrats and Republicans arrived at a point where they barely speak to each other