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180614t20182017enk e b 000 0 eng d |
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9781785038679 |
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(paperback) |
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1785038672 |
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(paperback) |
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WWBK |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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| Classification number |
973 |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Andersen, Kurt, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1954-, |
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author. |
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12746 |
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| Title |
Fantasyland : |
| Remainder of title |
how America went haywire : a 500-year history / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Kurt Andersen. |
| 246 33 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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Fantasy land. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Ebury Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2018. |
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©2017. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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xi, 462 pages ; |
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24 cm. |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent. |
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unmediated |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Includes index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest observers, Kurt Andersen, demonstrates that 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 impresarios and their audiences, by hucksters and their suckers. Believe-whatever-you-want 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 peculiar love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. 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. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies--every citizen free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. Little by little, and then more quickly in the last several decades, the American invent-your-own-reality legacy of the Enlightenment superseded its more sober, rational, and empirical parts. We gave ourselves over to all manner of crackpot ideas and make-believe lifestyles designed to console or thrill or terrify us. In Fantasyland, Andersen brilliantly connects the dots that define this condition, portrays its scale and scope, and offers a fresh, bracing explanation of how our American journey has deposited us here. Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. |
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National characteristics, American. |
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9415 |
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Popular culture |
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United States |
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History. |
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12747 |
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United States |
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Civilization. |
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9418 |
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