05262cam a2200793 4500 336931108 TxAuBib 20180119120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781588366870 1588366871 B004J4WNJE Amazon 16b10360-2b1e-4f67-94d1-0955ba0ea2e9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1484733 OverDrive (Product ID) 209776 1484733 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Andersen, Kurt, 1954- Fantasyland [Libby eBook] : How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History. Random House Publishing Group, 2017. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 741kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 889kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. american national character. American pop culture. cultural commentary. Conspiracy Theories. pop culture history. post-truth america. political science. alternative facts. cultural movement. Republican Party. american history. Popular Culture. Joseph McCarthy. Climate change. social science. Oprah Winfrey. Protestantism. history books. l ron hubbard. Bill Clinton. Barack Obama. Donald Trump. billy graham. Scientology. walt disney. conspiracy. pt barnum. fake news. politics. Religion. Illusion. Mormons. History. trump. GOP. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER <ul> <li>"The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year."—Lawrence O'Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what's happening in our country today—this post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails. Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book. Praise for Fantasyland "With this rousing book, [Kurt] Andersen proves to be the kind of clear-eyed critic an anxious country needs in the midst of a national crisis."—San Francisco Chronicle "A frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline that would have the founding fathers weeping into their beards."—The Guardian "This is an important book—the indispensable book—for understanding America in the age of Trump. It's an eye-opening history filled with brilliant insights, a saga of how we were always susceptible to fantasy, from the Puritan fanatics to the talk-radio and Internet wackos who mix show business, hucksterism, and conspiracy theories."—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci</li> </ul>. Nonfiction. Sociology. Politics. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2018-01-19 18:00:32. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=16b10360-2b1e-4f67-94d1-0955ba0ea2e9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=16b10360-2b1e-4f67-94d1-0955ba0ea2e9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=16b10360-2b1e-4f67-94d1-0955ba0ea2e9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR