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2021., Random House Call No: NEW 330.973 A547e Edition: Random House Trade Paperback Edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country that the mid-century consensus about the function of the American government was all wrong. Only a writer with Andersen's crackling energy, deep intelligence, and ability to see complex systems with clarity could make such a vital book both intellectually formidable and completely entertaining. In his diagnosis of what happened and what it means for us today, Andersen spares no one, committing to a pinpointing of his own boomer generation as accessories to the great dismantling of the American experiment.
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2020., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 973.933 F944t Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A huge swath of Americans see the rest of the country building a future that doesn't have a place for them. It's no wonder they'd rather burn it all down. But the fire can be stopped by Americans who act now to protect their country and its democracy"--
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c2004., W. W. Norton & Company Call No: 327.16 S342w Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
