![]() ![]() If you want to understand the politics and culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book. Believe-whatever-you-want fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. The Wordy Shipmates is more than a punk-ish twist on our brave, verbose, tortured forebears, living in their new colony like ‘an ashram in the woods.' Cleveland Plain Dealer For those of us who’d rather harvest our history lessons from The Simpsons than the History Channel, Vowell is a latter-day heroFascinating. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by impresarios and their audiences, by hucksters and their suckers. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, one of our sharpest observers, Kurt Andersen, demonstrates that what’s happening in our country today-this strange, post-truth, “fake news” moment we’re all living through-is not something entirely new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character and path. ![]() Barnum to Disneyland to zealots and fantasists of every stripe. A razor-sharp thinker offers a groundbreaking and influential new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. ![]()
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