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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Nice Preowned Condition - SIGNED by the author - please see all photos and read the descritpion”
- Signed
- Yes
- Inscribed
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780062688842
- Book Title
- Beautiful Country Burn Again : Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Sociology / General, Presidents & Heads of State, United States / 21st Century, American Government / General, Essays
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 448 Pages
About this product
Product Information
"Ben Fountain's BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY BURN AGAIN is the bravest, boldest, most bracing political book of the year." -Bill Moyers In a sweeping work of reportage set over the course of 2016, New York Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben Fountain argues that the United States may be facing a third existential crisis, one that will require a "burning" of the old order as America attempts to remake itself. Beautiful Country Burn Again narrates a shocking year in American politics, moving from the early days of the Iowa Caucus to the crystalizing moments of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and culminating in the aftershocks of the weeks following election night. Along the way, Fountain probes deeply into history, illuminating the forces and watershed moments of the past that mirror and precipitated the present, from the hollowed-out notion of the American Dream, to Richard Nixon's southern strategy, to our weaponized new conception of American exceptionalism, to the cult of celebrity that gave rise to Donald Trump. In an urgent and deeply incisive voice, Ben Fountain has fused history and the present day to paint a startling portrait of the state of our nation. Beautiful Country Burn Again is a searing indictment of how we came to this point, and where we may be headed.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0062688847
ISBN-13
9780062688842
eBay Product ID (ePID)
242613558
Product Key Features
Book Title
Beautiful Country Burn Again : Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Sociology / General, Presidents & Heads of State, United States / 21st Century, American Government / General, Essays
Publication Year
2018
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
23.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E911.F68 2018
Reviews
The author covers events much like an especially woke journalist... For most readers, Fountain will offer fresh insights...The author's masterful original phrasings make the book worthwhile, urgent, and timely., [Fountain's] words are emotional and powerful. While Donald Trump and those who enable him are primary targets, no one escapes his criticism, including much of the American electorate. Beautiful Country Burn Again has the potential to arm the body politic with their greatest weapon--knowledge., The reality of US politics outdistanced the wildest extravagances of imagination a long time ago, which is only one of a hundred deft, discomfiting points Fountain makes. In today's superheated political climate, fairness and perspective are hard to come, but Fountain manages to take a relatively measured view., [Fountain] is not only a sharp writer but an astute observer of the human condition. And, it turns out, he's got a sharp mind for politics and history, too.... The book is a captivating read -- often humorous, infuriating, and depressing all at the same time., Thank God for Ben Fountain...Here is a quirky truth teller, a creative, who is attempting to steer America on a path that will bring some goodness to the most of us. Beautiful Country Burn Again is...written with a novelist's skill of heart and with a researcher's expertise., Sometimes it takes a novelist to capture a world gone mad...With clarity of mind and the most observant of eyes, Fountain gives us a memorable and unique portrait of...an American moment which is likely to shape us for far longer than any of us would like to contemplate., A masterpiece of a book, the true story of American possibility...So smart, so funny, so well-researched, so brilliantly argued, so scathing and at times shaming and, most of all, morally honest...I hope every word will find its way into the coarsening minds and hearts of every American., The force and beauty of Fountain's writing, his clear-eyed fury, his commitment to what is great about the American idea, make for exhilarating reading. A book for right now, and for all the fires next time., As a stylist, Fountain combines the talents of Ambrose Bierce, Norman Mailer, and Hunter Thompson.... A penetrating critique of a contemporary American politics thoroughly corrupted by money.... Ben Fountain's voice--enraged, unsparing, unrelenting, acutely attuned to hypocrisy, and suffused with wit--invests his testimony with an authority that commands respect., There may be no writer alive today who better captures the manic, fevered, paranoid style in 21st-century America than Ben Fountain.
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2018-022055
Dewey Decimal
324.973/09005
Dewey Edition
23
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