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Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history by Kurt Andersen [Andersen, Kurt] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “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,
Who reads Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kurt Andersen [Andersen, Kurt]
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781785038655
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Political Science
- Rating
- 4.24 / 5 (44 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14