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Sto caricando le informazioni... American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People (edizione 2020)di Jared Yates Sexton (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Although I missed the more conversational first person voice of his other two books, this is another great one by Jared Yates Sexton. A concise but brutally honest history of both white supremacy and class division from the very start of the United States and how it has gotten us to the state we are in now. It's a sobering read but well worth it and with a surprising note of optimism, that we can change things and it is not too late, but we need to be clear headed about the past and look for a new way forward. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the twenty-first century, which examines and debunks the American myths we've always told ourselves. In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart and locked away. A common refrain erupts at each new atrocity: This isn't who we are. In American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the foundational myths at the heart of our collective American imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values, which are fed to the public and repeated across generations. Working through each era of American growth and change, Sexton weaves together the origins and perpetuation of these narratives still in the public memory, and the acts we have chosen to forget. Stirring, deeply researched, and disturbingly familiar, American Rule is a call to examine our own misconceptions of what it means, and has always meant, to be an American"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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