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94/100Author:
Kurt Andersen
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
August 11, 2020
Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country that the mid-century consensus about the function of the American government was all wrong.
What The Reviewers Say
... essential, absorbing, infuriating, full-of-facts-you-didn’t-know, saxophonely written.
... not a slog through terrible news. The book is, perhaps counterintuitively, terrifically entertaining and engaging. Andersen is a lively and funny writer who has honed his voice through a long career as a journalist, novelist, humorist and radio host/podcaster for Studio 360. The elements he is able to pull together and weave into a narrative that so convincingly pinpoints how we arrived at this moment are consistently novel and interesting.
Andersen is a confident synthesizer and writes with the zeal of the recently converted.
... a timely, hard-hitting analysis of America’s “hijacked, screwed-up political economy.
