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Bad Stories

Steve Almond

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  • 272 sidor
  • 2018
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 wasnt 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. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country is Almonds 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 voicesfrom Melville to Orwell, from Bradbury to Baldwinto 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. Bad Stories is a lamentation aimed at providing clarity. Its the book you can pass along to an anguished fellow traveler with the promise, This will help you understand what the hell happened to our country.
  • Författare: Steve Almond
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781597092265
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2018-05-17
  • Förlag: Red Hen Press