American manifesto : saving democracy from villains, vandals, and ourselves /
Why is our society in the fix it is in? Is it all Donald Trump's fault? Well, no. As often observed, Trump is a symptom of a virus that has been incubating for at least fifty years and maybe 150. But not often observed is where the virus is imbedded, in the psychic core of identity. This book e...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, California :
Counterpoint,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | Why is our society in the fix it is in? Is it all Donald Trump's fault? Well, no. As often observed, Trump is a symptom of a virus that has been incubating for at least fifty years and maybe 150. But not often observed is where the virus is imbedded, in the psychic core of identity. This book explores the primacy of identity in American society and makes the argument that hyperpolarization was not only predictable but inevitable, based on such unlikely causal bedfellows as biology, multiculturalism and collateral damage from the American Dream. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 191 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781640092808 1640092803 |