Bibliograph

Beautiful country burn again, democracy, rebellion, and revolution, Ben Fountain

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Beautiful country burn again, democracy, rebellion, and revolution, Ben Fountain

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Beautiful country burn again

Oclc number

1048660052

Responsibility statement

Ben Fountain

Sub title

democracy, rebellion, and revolution

Summary

Twice before in its history, the United States has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself in order to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt's New Deal and the establishment of America as a social-democratic state. In a sequence of essays that excavate the past while laying bare the political upheaval of 2016, Ben Fountain argues that the United States may be facing a third existential crisis, one that will require a “burning” of the old order as America attempts to remake itself

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Democracy, rebellion, and revolution

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