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Beautiful country burn again : democracy, rebellion, and revolution
- Title
- Beautiful country burn again : democracy, rebellion, and revolution / Ben Fountain.
- Author
- Fountain, Ben
- Publication
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 433 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Alternative Title
- Democracy, rebellion, and revolution
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue : The third reinvention -- Book of days : January -- Iowa 2016 : riding the roadkill express -- Book of days : February -- The phony in American politics -- Book of days : March -- American crossroads : Reagan, Trump, and the devil down south -- Book of days : April -- American exceptionalism and the great game : at play in the fields of the Lord -- Book of days : May -- Doing the chickenhawk with Trump : talking fast and loose in the time of endless war -- Book of days : June -- Cheerleaders of the star-spangled apocalypse : fear and loathing with the NRA in Louisville, Kentucky -- Book of days : July -- Cleveland fear factory -- Book of days : August -- Hillary doesn't live here anymore -- Book of days : September -- Two American dreams -- Book of days : October -- The long good deal -- Book of days : November -- Trump rising : King Donald saddles up with the wrecking crew -- Book of days : December -- A familiar spirit.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-1796
- ISBN
- 9780062688842
- 0062688847
- LCCN
- 2018022055
- 40028553083
- OCLC
- 1048660052
- Author
- Fountain, Ben, author.
- Title
- Beautiful country burn again : democracy, rebellion, and revolution / Ben Fountain.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 2009-2017
- Other Form:
- Online version: Fountain, Ben. Beautiful country burn again. First edition. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2018] 9780062688767 (DLC) 2018039141
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028553083
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-1796