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Fantasyland, how America went haywire : a 500-year history, Kurt Andersen

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Fantasyland, how America went haywire : a 500-year history, Kurt Andersen

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fantasyland

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1019588112

Responsibility statement

Kurt Andersen

Sub title

how America went haywire : a 500-year history

Summary

"In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen demontrates what's happening in our country today. This strange, post-truth, "fake news" moment we're all living through is not something entirely new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character and path. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Believe-whatever-you-want fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. From the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P.T. Barnum to Hollywood, from our fetish for guns to our obsession with extraterrestrials, our peculiar love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. Written with gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity, Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment for understanding the politics and culture of twenty-first-century America, and how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred." --, Page 4 of cover

Table Of Contents

The conjuring of America : 1517-1789 -- United States of amazing: the 1800s -- A long arc bending toward reason: 1900-1960 -- Big bang: the 1960s and '70s -- Fantasy scales: from the 1980s through the turn of the century -- The problem with Fantasyland: from the 1980s to the present and beyond

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