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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-101400067219
ISBN-139781400067213
eBay Product ID (ePID)78360646
Product Key Features
Book TitleFantasyland : How America Went Haywire: a 500-Year History
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicSocial History, Popular Culture, Commentary & Opinion, United States / General
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorKurt Andersen
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight26.1 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-016052
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"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. Even the parts you think you know already are put into an eye-opening context." --Walter Isaacson "Kurt Andersen is America's voice of reason. What is he--Canadian? The people who should read this book won't--because it's a book--but reality-based citizens will still get a kick out of this winning romp through centuries of American delusion." --Sarah Vowell " Fantasyland presents the very best kind of idea--one that, in retrospect, seems obvious, but that took a seer like Kurt Andersen to piece together. The thinking and the writing are both dazzling; it is at once a history lesson and an oh-so-modern cri de coeur; it's an absolute joy to read and will leave your brain dancing with excitement long after you're done." --Stephen Dubner
Dewey Decimal973
SynopsisNEW 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, 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. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in." --Tom Brokaw " An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of America's cultural history." -- Newsday "Compelling and totally unnerving." -- The Village Voice "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." --Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci, 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, 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. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in." --Tom Brokaw "[An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of America's cultural history." -- Newsday "Compelling and totally unnerving." -- The Village Voice "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." --Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci
LC Classification NumberE169.1.A543 2017
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- 31. Okt. 2017
NOT an "alternative fact"
Andersen has NAILED THE STATE OF AMERICA TODAY. I'm 73 and remember the psychoses of molested children, and the horrible things it did to innocent people - jailed due to nonsensical "authorities" and how hysteria took over our legal system, only to be reversed years later after destroying the lives of so many people. Kurt has verified my KNOWLEDGE, not BELIEF, that way too many adults do NOT THINK anymore - DO NOT do any sort of research or questioning of what they hear around them. I grew up learning about the world by playing in it, learning how the world works at the grassroots level - meaning digging in the ground playing in the fields, SEEING how things work and taking things apart and using my BRAIN in a REALITY-FOCUSED way. My father would tell me when i did something incorrectly/wrong, he would admonish me to THINK - not react - but THINK before I did things that went wrong. I grew up oriented toward the physical world thru my play, then studied physics in college, which verified for me the rules of the universe - PHYSICAL rules which determine what happens to me physically, such as getting HURT when I did stupid, dangerous things. I learned CONSEQUENCES of my own behavior, that were not caused by other people's opinions or behavior. ANOTHER VERIFICATION I had of how the real world works, meaning how other people thought and worked, was growing up as a Presbyterian - but not a real believer in it - just family circumstances - in UTAH, a thorougly MORMON environment, where i learrned PREJUDICE firsthand. I and noon-Mormon friends were ignored, excluded, and proselytized endlessly by "friends" who believed the nonsensical Mormon "cleaned-up" history of their "church", and believed without analyzing or thinking critically about what they were fed by the "church". I learned the FACT that ALL religions are theatres full of scapegoats/excuses for everything bad/good that happens to anyone who participates in their ceremonies without THINKING and REASONING. I learned how amazing it is what people will believe if they run into a situation where they don't have enough information to come to a rational conclusion about what has or is happening. They will believe what others BELIEVE, but don't analyze what they profess to believe via reasoningBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 14. Sep. 2018
Fantastic, eye-opening book!!
Gift for my son. He said it's a great book,everyone should read it. A lot of work went into this book and author did a fantastic job. Highly recommend.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 03. Aug. 2021
A must stimulating read.
You might not agree with all that's in this book, but a must read for those that want to have a look at how we got where we are. Well written by an intelligent author.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 10. Aug. 2021
A new insight into American History
Andersen tells it like it is without whitewashing the craziness that compels someone to pull up stakes and travel to a new land based on dreams of implementing their vision of what society should be, often based on radical religious ideas, or just seeking their fortune based on rumors and gossip. The writing is entertaining as much as it is informative, but if you've inherited any of those new religions invented in America, you might need a thick skin as Andersen calls out all the foolishness not sparing the religious.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 14. Nov. 2019
Fantasyland
great book explaining the gulliibilty of AmericansBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 22. Mai. 2018
Important book
very interesting readBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 26. Sep. 2018
there is more fantasy than you realize.
good readBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 02. Jun. 2020
Excellent review of rational vs emotional belief
Should be read by everyoneBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 03. Jan. 2018
Truley thought provoking
Covers incredible amount of U.S. folly.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 03. Feb. 2021
Nailed it
Nailed it.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
