Bad stories : what the hell just happened to our country
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Newburgh Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 306.097 ALM | On Shelf |
Valley Cottage Free Library - Adult Nonfiction | 306.0973 ALM | On Shelf |
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Published
Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, 2018.
Format
Book
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257 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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"Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasn't just the election, but the fact that nobody could explain, in any sort of coherent way, why America had elected a cruel, corrupt, and incompetent man to the Presidency. [This book] is Almond's effort to make sense of our historical moment, to connect certain dots that go unconnected amid the deluge of hot takes and think pieces. Almond looks to literary voices--from Melville to Orwell, from Bradbury to Baldwin--to help explain the roots of our moral erosion as a people. The book argues that Trumpism is a bad outcome arising directly from the bad stories we tell ourselves. To understand how we got here, we have to confront our cultural delusions: our obsession with entertainment, sports, and political parody, the degeneration of our free press into a for-profit industry, our enduring pathologies of race, class, immigration, and tribalism."--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Almond, S. (2018). Bad stories: what the hell just happened to our country . Red Hen Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Almond, Steve. 2018. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country. Red Hen Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Almond, Steve. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country Red Hen Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Almond, Steve. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country Red Hen Press, 2018.
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