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American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves

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Availability:In StockContributor:Bob GarfieldPublish date:2021-01-12Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781640094611ISBN-10:164009461XUPC:9781640094611Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Commentary & Opinion, Political Process, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Media & Internet, Conservatism & LiberalismSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCHNPGJCJZ
Do you fear for our democracy? Are you ready to throw in the towel? Don't! This is your guidebook to reassembling our hyperpolarized American society in six (not-so-easy) steps, written by the cohost of WNYC's On the Media.

As is often observed, Trump is a symptom of a virus that has been incubating for at least fifty years. But not often observed is where the virus is imbedded: in the psychic core of our identity. In American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves, popular media personality Bob Garfield examines the tragic confluence of the American preoccupation with identity and the catastrophic disintegration of the mass media.

Garfield investigates how we've gotten to this moment when our identity is threatened by both the left and the right, when e pluribus unum is no longer a source of national pride, and why, when looking through this lens of identity, the rise of Trumpism is no surprise. Overlaying this crisis is the rise of the Facebook-Google duopoly and the filter bubble of social media, where identity is insular and immutable.

But fear not! WNYC's On the Media cohost Garfield has ideas about how we may counter the forces of fragmentation--the manifesto itself: six steps to take to reassemble our fractured society. A quick, fascinating read, American Manifesto offers not only a vision of a country in extremis, but also a plan for how to address the ways in which our democracy is imperiled. Provocative, profound, and sometimes hilariously profane, American Manifesto is a call to action like no other.
Language:EnglishPublisher:CatapultISBN-13:9781640094611ISBN-10:164009461XUPC:9781640094611Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Commentary & Opinion, Political Process, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Media & Internet, Conservatism & LiberalismSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SCHNPGJCJZ
Bob Garfield is the cohost of WNYC's weekly Peabody Award-winning On the Media. Garfield has been a columnist and contributing editor for The Washington Post Magazine, The Guardian, and USA Today, as well as an author, lecturer, podcaster, and broadcast personality on ABC, CBS, CNBC, PBS, and NPR. He lives in suburban Washington, D.C.
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