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How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History

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Kurt Andersen

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There's a tendency at this moment-this alternative-facts moment-to see our situation as an aberrant newAmerican phenomenon. In fact, it is the logical progression of our national character. America was created by wishful thinkers and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is in our genes. From the Pilgrims to witch hunts to P.T. Barnum to Joseph Smith and the Scopes Monkey Trial, from Walt Disney to Billy Graham, from the birther movement to, yes, Donald Trump, we have proven, again and again, to be uniquely susceptible to magical thinking, delusion, illusion, conspiracy, and bullsh*t. In other words- what do you get when you mix epic individualism with extreme religion, show business, and everything else; run it through the Great Awakening and the Great Delirium, the anything-goes Sixties and the internet age; and let it ferment for a few centuries? You get Fantasyland, a place where reality and fantasy are dangerously blurred and mingled.

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KURT ANDERSEN is the New York Times bestselling author of novels Heyday, Turn of the Century, and True Believers, as well as the nonfiction title Reset- How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America. He has also written for film, television and the stage and contributes to New York, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair. He began his career in journalism at Time, where during the 1980s he was an award-winning writer on politics and criminal justice. He is host and co-creator of Studio 360, the Peabody Award-winning cultural magazine show. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was an editor of the Lampoon. In 2003, New York Magazine named him one of the 100 People Who Changed New York, and in 2008 Forbes.com named him one of The 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media. He lives in Brooklyn.

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October 5th, 2017

Author

Kurt Andersen

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General (US: Trade)

Pages

480

Dimensions

156x235x30

ISBN-13

9781400067213

Product ID

11207656

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