Almond Steve - Bad Stories What The Hell Just Happened To Our Country - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Bad Stories What The Hell Just Happened To Our Country
Author(s): Almond Steve
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Barcode: 9781597092265
Pages: 272 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 4/1/2018
Category: Political Campaigning & Advertising