The Sky Is Falling: How Pulp Culture Taught Us to Love Extremism

Biskind, Peter

| 2018

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A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018 "A thoughtful, entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us." --The Spectator (London)"A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played in the rise of American extremism." --Ruth Reichl"You'll never look at your favorite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't." --Steven SoderberghA bestselling cultural journalist shows how pop culture prepared Americans to embrace extreme politicsAlmost everything has been invoked to account for Trump's victory and the rise of the alt-right, from job loss to racism to demography--everything, that is, except popular culture. In The Sky Is Falling bestselling cultural journalist Peter Biskind dives headlong into two decades of...

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