{"product_id":"9780674301436-grt-disorder","title":"A Great Disorder","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNational Myth and the Battle for America\u003cbr\u003eThe culture wars are pitting us against each other with a vitriol that is fueling outright violence. Slotkin looks to the foundational myths that have shaped American identity—the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War—and reveals why they are bringing the US to the brink of an existential crisis.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Edwards Book Award\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Sweeping…A new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A provocative culmination of Slotkin’s field-defining arguments on the place of violence in creating America.” —Kathleen Belew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brisk, bold, and thought-provoking.” —Daniel Lazare, \u003ci\u003eArts Fuse  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[An] exciting and detailed new decoder ring of a book…While it is usually hyperbolic to claim that a book will change your life, this one may well have a permanent effect on how you consume and think about American political news.” —Tom Zoellner, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRed America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing irreconcilable visions of patriotism and national identity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Great Disorder \u003c\/i\u003eis a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today’s culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America’s foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics.  Richard Slotkin identifies five key narratives that have shaped our conception of what it means to be American: the myths of the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (with dueling views of it as Liberation or the Lost Cause), and the Good War. Today, Slotkin argues, Trump and his MAGA followers play up a frontier-inspired hostility to the federal government and rally around Confederate symbols to champion a racially exclusive definition of American nationality; meanwhile, Blue America takes its cue from the protest movements of the 1960s, envisioning a limitlessly pluralistic country in which the federal government is the ultimate enforcer of rights and opportunities. With these opposing perspectives, American history—and the foundations of our democracy—has become a battleground. It remains to be seen which vision will prevail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55279507014006,"sku":"9780674301436","price":20.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_41157160.jpg?v=1778119861","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780674301436-grt-disorder","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}