{"product_id":"fantasyland-how-america-went-haywire-a-500-year-history-paperback","title":"Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKurt Andersen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How did we get here? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ehas 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eFantasyland\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE \u003ci\u003eSAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in.\"\u003cb\u003e--Tom Brokaw\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of America's cultural history.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Compelling and totally unnerving.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This is an important book--the indispensable book--for understanding America in the age of Trump.\"\u003cb\u003e--Walter Isaacson, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLeonardo da Vinci\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKurt Andersen\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEvil Geniuses\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFantasyland\u003c\/i\u003e and the novels \u003ci\u003eTrue Believers, Heyday \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003eTurn of the Century, \u003c\/i\u003eamong other books. He contributes to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and was host and co-creator of \u003ci\u003eStudio 360, \u003c\/i\u003e the Peabody Award-winning public radio show and podcast. He also writes for television, film, and the stage. Andersen co-founded \u003ci\u003eSpy\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, served as editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eNew York, \u003c\/i\u003e and was a cultural columnist and design critic for \u003ci\u003eTime, New York\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e. 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