Book
The American crisis : what went wrong, how we recover
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Publication Information
New York : Simon and Schuster, 2020.
Physical Description
vii, 566 pages ; 24 cm
Added Uniform Title
Summary
"Some of America's best reporters and thinkers offer an urgent look at a country in chaos in this collection of timely, often prophetic articles from The Atlantic"--
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
- "When the next plague hits" / "The birth of a new American aristocracy" / "Left behind" / "Red state, blue city" / "Carry me back" / "Being black in American can be hazardous to your health" / "The undocumented agent" / "Brotherhood of losers" / "The most expensive weather year ever" / "The prophecies of Q" / "They had it coming" / "A warning from Europe" / "Newt Gingrich says you're welcome" / "What's ailing American politics?" / "American hustler" / "The battle for North Carolina" / "How America ends" / "The last temptation" / "Why technology favors tyranny" / "In case of emergency" / "The enemy within" / The coronavirus called America's bluff" / "Donald Trump and the politics of fear" / "The first white president" / "The Republican Party moves from family values to white nationalism" / "Am I an American?" / "The world burns. Sarah Sanders says this is fine" / "How to destroy a government" / "How to build an autocracy" / "General chaos" / Inside Ivanka's dreamworld" / Will Beth Moore lose her flock?" / "The cruelty is the point" / "The last day of my old life" / "Becoming a parent in the age of Black Lives Matter" / "The lessons of the Great Depression" / "The road from serfdom" / "In the fall of Rome, good news for America" / "The possibility of America" / "What art can do"