Bad stories : what the hell just happened to our country
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Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2018].
Edition
First Edition.
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257 pages ; 21 cm
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Published
Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
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"Like a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasn't just the election, but the fact that nobody could explain, in any sort of coherent way, why America had elected a cruel, corrupt, and incompetent man to the Presidency. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country is Almond's effort to make sense of our historical moment, to connect certain dots that go unconnected amid the deluge of hot takes and think pieces. Almond looks to literary voices--from Melville to Orwell, from Bradbury to Baldwin--to help explain the roots of our moral erosion as a people. The book argues that Trumpism is a bad outcome arising directly from the bad stories we tell ourselves. To understand how we got here, we have to confront our cultural delusions: our obsession with entertainment, sports, and political parody, the degeneration of our free press into a for-profit industry, our enduring pathologies of race, class, immigration, and tribalism. Bad Stories is a lamentation aimed at providing clarity. It's the book you can pass along to an anguished fellow traveler with the promise, This will help you understand what the hell happened to our country"--Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Almond, S. (2018). Bad stories: what the hell just happened to our country (First Edition.). Red Hen Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Almond, Steve. 2018. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country. Red Hen Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Almond, Steve. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country Red Hen Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Almond, Steve. Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country First Edition., Red Hen Press, 2018.
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