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A deep immersion into how and why America, over the past generation, has abandoned the tradition of working for the common good to worship instead at the altar of high finance.
America has disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented nostalgia wave by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, and making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone, convincing the country that the midcentury consensus about what the American government was actually for was all wrong.
Only a writer with Andersen's crackling energy, deep intelligence, and ability to see complex systems with rare clarity could make such a vital book both intellectually formidable and completely entertaining. In his diagnostic of what happened and what it means for us today, Andersen spares no one, committing to a harsh critique of his own boomer generation as being accessories to the great dismantling of the American experiment.
America has disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented nostalgia wave by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, and making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone, convincing the country that the midcentury consensus about what the American government was actually for was all wrong.
Only a writer with Andersen's crackling energy, deep intelligence, and ability to see complex systems with rare clarity could make such a vital book both intellectually formidable and completely entertaining. In his diagnostic of what happened and what it means for us today, Andersen spares no one, committing to a harsh critique of his own boomer generation as being accessories to the great dismantling of the American experiment.