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# Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Paperback – June 5, 2018

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A great, essential, book.
  

*by C***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2019*

I've had Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History on my Must Read pile ever since it came out in Fall of 2017. My own misapprehension led me to read first trove of Trump books all coming out around that time as being likely more topical. In a way, they were, but many of them have been subsumed by the perpetual failure to hit bottom in these times, have been rendered obsolete.Not so. Fantasyland inhabits every inch with Rembrandt precision, intuition and inference, the canvas of our nation's history as founded by Puritan outcasts, simultaneously rigid in their discipline, but addicted to the magic of Biblical literalism. From the earliest days, American exceptionalism has been in terms of our seemingly innate desire for escape; our own beliefs over established fact (if he really believes, 'trusts his gut', he's not actually lying: he believes his own Fox-fed fantasy world), from patent medicines and various sub-cults and Esalen and Jim Jones to the Internet's indiscriminate dissemination of variously-fact-contingent information, the Alt-Right, the Limbaughs and UFO fanatics and ultimately Fox News (presaging Rudy Giuliani's "Truth isn't truth"), our appetite for conspiracy, from Salem through McCarthyism to alien abduction, to speaking in tongues to Hillary's Pizza Parlor Child Pornography.In this historical, sociological context, thoroughly and thoughtfully engaged and intuitively and superbly written thesis, Trump is the apotheosis; not the bug, the feature; the inevitable.This is a great book.In the early pages, I found myself wishing I were reading Kurt assessments rather than the early chroniclers, sociologists he would cite, so pleasurable and concise is his prose. The only voice i wish we'd heard more was people like Julie Siegel, the unabashed Disney addict. Hearing her voice rather than just painting an informed portrait of an impression of various pentacostal or evangelical, et al, communities was one of the most riveting moments of the book. Would that there had been more of that. The only other interview-based quote was from Devin Nunes. Ew.There are indeed many other voices Kurt highlights, brilliant interviewer/racconteur that he is: Einstein on Religion, Hannah Arendt presciently from her 1951 The Origins of Totalitarianism:"A mixture of gullibility and cynicism have been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached a point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true...Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to be deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leader based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutably proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness."

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very thought-provoking book
  

*by D***I on Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2024*

The scope of this book is truly impressive. The author takes you from the founding years of the country through to the current decades and charts the evolution of a uniquely American society.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    good book exectp...
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2024*

This author had a previous book called "Evil Geniuses". (sp?)  I thought it was great.  So, when he came out with the current book I bought it right away.  He did not dissappoint.  I've thought for a long time that America was off in its own cloud of fantasy.  At times we, Americans don't seem to be able to tell truth from fiction. This is a book worth reading especially in today's climate where half the country seems to have lost it's mind.  So, why not five stars? The author writes about his experiences with marijuana and other mind altering drugs.  He says he doesn't regret his adolescent use of acid and marijuana.  He seems to give credence to the notion that "acid trips" or marijuana highs can be useful to developing ideas and perspectives.  He cites Steve Jobs as an example.  Unless I am completely misunderstanding him, this is not a good message.  The human brain isn't even fully developed until age 25.  Adolescents are trying to find their way--through acid trips? I think not.I have an emotional side to my opinion.  I tried for 17 years to alter, hide, forget, see things differently and so on with drugs (starting with beer and marijuana).  Most kids don't go down the extreme road I did but who knows what damage is done.  Is marijuana use the author's way to get out of "Fantasy land?"  I nearly died.  Today, I've been clean and sober for over 34 years but I'll never forget how inocently my drug use began.  So, take that for what it is.  That's why only four stars.Mark Wilder

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