Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream
Autor Sarah Churchwellen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408894774
ISBN-10: 1408894777
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408894777
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
A topic of urgent relevance that explains a great deal about the schism dividing America today. Sarah Churchwell is an American-born, London-based historian, with a big UK media profile and journalistic experience of discussing American issues for British audiences
Notă biografică
Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Her literary journalism has appeared widely in newspapers and she comments regularly on arts, culture, and politics for television and radio. She lives in London.
Recenzii
A ripping yarn ... Behold, America is an enthralling book ... Passionate, well-researched and comprehensive
Excoriating, brilliant
Enormously entertaining. Churchwell is a careful and sensitive reader, writes with great vigour and has a magpie's eye for a revealing story
A fascinating history of the two intersecting tropes of modern America
Lively and eminently readable . Churchwell has produced a timely and clearly argued book that makes a clear case for the intellectual parallels between the first third of the 20th century and our own
[An] enlightening new cultural history . The shadow of the 45th President hangs over all 300 pages of Behold, America, a book designed expressly to demonstrate just how that history rhymes with the present . While it is indeed a history of two phrases, Behold, America is also a history of the people who used them . An American in the UK, [Churchwell] has the benefit of an outside perspective on the country of her birth, which is prone to national self-delusions just as grand as Britain's, if not more so. Behold, America punctures many of them
The Trump administration has prompted a veritable landslide of books about the current state of US culture and politics. Literary journalist and professor Sarah Churchwell digs a little deeper than most, providing a thoughtful long view on a highly topical subject
Churchwell takes us on a whirlwind tour of the first decades of the 20th century . We hear the discordant voices of American reformers, immigrants, reactionaries and nativists, satirists and polemicists, Ku Klux Klansmen and ersatz Hitlers . Churchwell is well attuned to the nuances of the national conversation
The figure of Donald Trump looms over Sarah Churchwell's new history of American national identity, which highlights the ugliest features of the country's ingrained traditions of intolerance and bigotry. But it is the current president's father, Fred, who first leaps off the page in a startling cameo appearance ... Churchwell is at her best when she relates in horrific detail the once commonplace public lynching of blacks, both in the North and in the South, and she is astute about the crackpot/booster strains in American culture
Churchwell's thorough, fascinating history of the birth of the America First movement uses the past to throw disturbing light on present-day politics in the US
Churchwell's thoroughness in delineating America's decade-by-decade bigotry through primary sources from speeches to newspapers to novels is a marvel. But it is more than a history lesson. She's constructing the case for how the US elected Donald Trump, a catastrophe many of us struggle to understand
Excoriating, brilliant
Enormously entertaining. Churchwell is a careful and sensitive reader, writes with great vigour and has a magpie's eye for a revealing story
A fascinating history of the two intersecting tropes of modern America
Lively and eminently readable . Churchwell has produced a timely and clearly argued book that makes a clear case for the intellectual parallels between the first third of the 20th century and our own
[An] enlightening new cultural history . The shadow of the 45th President hangs over all 300 pages of Behold, America, a book designed expressly to demonstrate just how that history rhymes with the present . While it is indeed a history of two phrases, Behold, America is also a history of the people who used them . An American in the UK, [Churchwell] has the benefit of an outside perspective on the country of her birth, which is prone to national self-delusions just as grand as Britain's, if not more so. Behold, America punctures many of them
The Trump administration has prompted a veritable landslide of books about the current state of US culture and politics. Literary journalist and professor Sarah Churchwell digs a little deeper than most, providing a thoughtful long view on a highly topical subject
Churchwell takes us on a whirlwind tour of the first decades of the 20th century . We hear the discordant voices of American reformers, immigrants, reactionaries and nativists, satirists and polemicists, Ku Klux Klansmen and ersatz Hitlers . Churchwell is well attuned to the nuances of the national conversation
The figure of Donald Trump looms over Sarah Churchwell's new history of American national identity, which highlights the ugliest features of the country's ingrained traditions of intolerance and bigotry. But it is the current president's father, Fred, who first leaps off the page in a startling cameo appearance ... Churchwell is at her best when she relates in horrific detail the once commonplace public lynching of blacks, both in the North and in the South, and she is astute about the crackpot/booster strains in American culture
Churchwell's thorough, fascinating history of the birth of the America First movement uses the past to throw disturbing light on present-day politics in the US
Churchwell's thoroughness in delineating America's decade-by-decade bigotry through primary sources from speeches to newspapers to novels is a marvel. But it is more than a history lesson. She's constructing the case for how the US elected Donald Trump, a catastrophe many of us struggle to understand