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“ History doesn’t  stand still, no matter how many times you sing ‘The Star-
Spangled  Banner.’ Bill Kauffman brings an antic verve to the sobering question ”
of  America’s ability to hang together as one nation. He correctly perceives that 
the end of one story is the beginning of a whole new one.
— James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency and World Made By Hand

What’s the other “S” word you can’t say on TV? Secession!
For almost 150 years secession has been a dirty word. But indigenous, grassroots independence movements
are rising up across the nation.
The more polarized we get, the more we recoil from the disjointed whole.
Bill Kauffman’s latest book, Bye Bye, Miss American Empire, is an incisive, eye-opening investigation into
modern-day secession.
Meet the people behind the movements, a mix of conser­vatives, liberals, regionalists, and independents with
one thing in common: a sense that our nation has grown too large, and too powerfully centralized to stay
true to its founding principles.
Bye Bye, Miss American Empire traces the historical roots of the secessionist spirit and introduces us to the
truly radical and highly charged movements that want to decen­tralize and re-localize power.

“Kauffman is one of the most original journalistic voices in America today”

— Richmond Times Dispatch
“Novel and important...often perceptive and nearly always provocative”
— Benjamin Schwarz, literary and national editor, Atlantic Monthly
“Kauffman and I are the original patriots...Kauffman is a romantic reactionary, a
writer with an odd, energetic optimism”
— Gore Vidal

Bill Kauffman is the author of nine books, including Dispatches from the Muckdog Gazette, which
won the 2003 national “Sense of Place” award from Writers & Books, and Look Homeward, America,
which the American Library Association named one of the best books of 2006. He writes frequently
for The Wall Street Journal and the American Conservative and lives in his native Genesee County,
New York, with his family.

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