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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Andersen, Kurt, 1954- author.     Subjects     National characteristics, American.     Popular culture -- United States -- History.     United States -- Civilization.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Andersen, Kurt, 1954- author.       by title:      Fantasyland : how Am...         MARC Display

Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history / Kurt Andersen. by Andersen, Kurt, 1954- author. New York : Random House, c2017. Subjects National characteristics, American.   Popular culture -- United States -- History.   United States -- Civilization. ISBN:  9781400067213 (hardcover) : 1400067219 (hardcover) Description:  xiii, 462 pages ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  1 Summary:  Explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters, and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of individuals from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self-delusion, and magical thinking. "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. If you want to understand the politics and 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."--Jacket.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 An Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hanapepe Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Andersen Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 An Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973 An Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 Andersen Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 An Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 An Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kealakekua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 An Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 An Checked In Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973 An Checked In Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 Next

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