Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history / Kurt Andersen.
Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history / Kurt Andersen.
Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history / Kurt Andersen.
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New York : Random House, [2017]
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G 2017/6033
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English
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Physical content
xiii, 462 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
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: th...
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New York : Random House, [2017]
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First edition.
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New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
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Explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters, and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of individuals from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self-delusion, and magical thinking.
America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by impresarios and their audiences, by hucksters and their suckers. Over the course of five centuries-- from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials-- ou...
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Fantasyland : how America went haywire : a 500-year history / Kurt Andersen.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/6033
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74VKVgBDj83l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgBDj83l
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ISBN
9781400067213
1400067219
DDC
973
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991024148805802626
