American manifesto : saving democracy from villains, vandals, and ourselves / Bob Garfield.

First hardcover edition.

Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2020.

©2020

xvi, 191 pages ; 22 cm

"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 50 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 hyper-polarization was not only predictable but inevitable, based on such unlikely causal bedfellows as biology, multiculturalism and collateral damage from the American Dream"-- Provided by publisher.

English

March 13, 2020