Fantasyland: how America went haywire : a 500-year history
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Published:
New York : Random House, [2017].
Format:
Book
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Desc:
xiii, 462 pages ; 25 cm
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780812978902, 0812978900, 9781400067213, 1400067219, 9781400067213
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P.T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe ... to Donald Trump"--,Provided by publisher.
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Andersen, K. (2017). Fantasyland: how America went haywire : a 500-year history. First edition. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Andersen, Kurt, 1954-. 2017. Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire : A 500-year History. Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Andersen, Kurt, 1954-, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire : A 500-year History. Random House, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Andersen, Kurt. Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire : A 500-year History. First edition. Random House, 2017.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Now entering Fantasyland -- Part I. The conjuring of America: 1517-1789. I believe, therefore I am right: the Protestants ; All that glitters: the gold-seekers ; Building our own private heaven on Earth: the Puritans ; The God-given freedom to believe in God ; Imaginary friends and enemies: the early Satanic Panics ; The first me century: religion gets American ; Meanwhile, in the eighteenth-century century reality-based community -- Part II. United States of amazing: the 1800s. The first great delirium ; The all-American fan fiction of Joseph Smith, prophet ; Quack nation: magical but modern ; Fantastic business: the gold rush inflection point ; In search of monsters to destroy: the conspiracy theory habit ; The war between states of mind ; Ten million little houses on the prairie ; Fantasy industrialized -- Part III. A long arc bending toward reason: 1900-1960. Progress and backlash ; The biggest backlash: brand-new old-time religion ; The business of America is show business ; Big rock candy mountains: utopia in the suburbs and the sun ; The 1950s seemed so normal -- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part IV. Big bang: the 1960s and '70s. Big bang: the hippies ; Big bang: the intellectuals ; Big bang: the Christians ; Big bang: politics and government and conspiracies ; Big bang: living in a land of entertainment -- Part V. Fantasyland scales: from the 1980s through the turn of the century. Making make-believe more realistic and real life more make-believe ; Forever young: kids "r" us syndrome ; The Reagan era and the start of the digital age ; American religion from the turn of the millennium ; Our wilder Christianities: belief and practice ; America versus the godless civilized world: why are we so exceptional? ; Magical but not necessarily Christian, spiritual but not religious ; Blue-chip witch doctors: the re-enchantment of medicine ; How the mainstream enabled Fantasyland: squishies, cynics, and believers ; Anything goes--unless it picks my pocket or breaks my leg -- Part VI. The problem with Fantasyland: from the 1980s to the present and beyond. The inmates running the asylum decide monsters are everywhere ; Reality is a conspiracy: the X-filing of America ; Mad as hell, the new voice of the people ; When the GOP went off the rails ; Liberals denying science ; Gun crazy ; Final fantasy-industrial complex ; Our inner children? They're going to Disney World! ; The economic dreamtime ; As fantasyland goes, so goes the nation. | |
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