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Disinformation Age - The Collapse of Liberal Democracy in the United States

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book explores the disconnect between political language and political reality in the United States in the post-Great Recession era of social, political, economic and environmental crisis. It argues that this crisis has called into question the ideology of "American exceptionalism," and outlines a more sustainable and democratic al

List of contents

Introduction
1. Disinformation: The End of Ideology
2. Narratives of the Nation
3. The Palimpsest of History: William Apess’s Anti-Jeremiad Jeremiad
4. The End of Innocence: Jeremiah Wright’s Anti-Jeremiad Jeremiad
5. Barack Obama and the Erasure of Race
6. The Confidence State
7. Melville’s The Confidence Man: His Masquerade
8. Thinking from a Different Place: What is a Just Society? A Brief Manifesto

About the author

Eric Cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.

Summary

This book explores the disconnect between political language and political reality in the United States in the post-Great Recession era of social, political, economic and environmental crisis. It argues that this crisis has called into question the ideology of "American exceptionalism," and outlines a more sustainable and democratic al

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