Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen (Engl

Description: Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen The post truth, fake news, free-for-all mentality isnt exactly a new phenomenon. Along the way, New York Times bestselling author Kurt Andersen has created a unique and raucous history of America and a new paradigm for understanding our post-factual world. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The New York Times bestseller and Amazon.com #1 bestselling post-truth history of AmericaYoure entitled to your own opinion but not your own factsFantasy is the USAs primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated truth standing in their way. The freedom to invent and believe whatever the hell you like is, in some ways, an unwritten constitutional right. But, this do-your-own-thing freedom also is the driving credo of Americas current transformation where the difference between opinion and fact is rapidly crumbling.So how did we get to this weird pseudo-reality, where science and objective facts are dismissed in favour of opinions and wild speculation, or indeed, fantasies? The post truth, fake news, free-for-all mentality isnt exactly a new phenomenon. If you want to understand Trumps America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the very beginning and take a dizzying road trip across five centuries of crackpot delusion and make-believe from Salem to Scientology.Fantasyland is a journey that connects the dots between crazed franchises of true believers - a rich freak show tapestry from Mormons to Flat-Earthers and satanic panic, new age quacks to anti-vaxxers, conspiracy theorists of every stripe, creationists to climate change deniers, UFO-obsessives to gun-toting libertarians, showmen hucksters from P T Barnum to Trump himself, all topped off with a dangerous dose of anti-government paranoia and pseudoscience. Along the way, New York Times bestselling author Kurt Andersen has created a unique and raucous history of America and a new paradigm for understanding our post-factual world. Notes This Amazon.com #1 bestselling history of American post-truth and alternative facts traces the precedent of current uncertainties in the era of the Pilgrim Fathers and in the individualism and relativism experimented within the 1960s. Author Biography New York Times bestselling author Kurt Andersen is host and co-creator of Studio 360, the Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast. He co-founded Spy magazine, served as editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, and was a cultural columnist and critic for Time and the New Yorker and contributes to Vanity Fair and the New York Times. Read more about him at his website- http-/// Review Not only a must-read for anyone wanting to understand Trumps America but also a laugh-out-loud undiluted pleasure -- Will Storr, author of SelfieThis is an important book - the indispensable book - for understanding America in the age of Trump. Its 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, author of Steve JobsFantasyland presents the very best kind of idea – one that, in retrospect, seems obvious, but which 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; its an absolute joy to read, and will leave your brain dancing with excitement long after youre done -- Stephen Dubner, co-author of FreakonomicsAn absorbing, must-read polemic. * Newsday *The most important book that I have read this year. -- Lawrence ODonnell * The Last Word, MSNBC * Promotional The New York Times bestseller and Amazon.com #1 bestselling post-truth history of America Review Text Not only a must-read for anyone wanting to understand Trumps America but also a laugh-out-loud undiluted pleasure Review Quote Not only a must-read for anyone wanting to understand Trumps America but also a laugh-out-loud undiluted pleasure Promotional "Headline" The New York Times bestseller and Amazon.com #1 bestselling post-truth history of America Details ISBN1785038672 Author Kurt Andersen Pages 480 Publisher Ebury Publishing Year 2018 ISBN-10 1785038672 ISBN-13 9781785038679 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-06-07 Imprint Ebury Press Subtitle How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 973 Media Book Short Title Fantasyland Language English UK Release Date 2018-06-07 AU Release Date 2018-06-07 NZ Release Date 2018-06-07 Narrator Sarah Ridgeway Illustrator Tana Ford Birth 1927 Affiliation Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Position Professor Qualifications J.D. 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