- Published: 12 October 2017
- ISBN: 9781473556959
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
Fantasyland
How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
- Published: 12 October 2017
- ISBN: 9781473556959
- Imprint: Ebury Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 480
This is an important book - the indispensable book - for understanding America in the age of Trump. It’s an eye-opening history filled with brilliant insights, a saga of how we were always susceptible to fantasy, from the Puritan fanatics to the talk-radio and Internet wackos who mix show business, hucksterism, and conspiracy theories.
Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs
Fantasyland presents the very best kind of idea – one that, in retrospect, seems obvious, but which took a seer like Kurt Andersen to piece together. The thinking and the writing are both dazzling; it is at once a history lesson and an oh-so-modern cri de coeur; it’s an absolute joy to read, and will leave your brain dancing with excitement long after you’re done
Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics
An absorbing, must-read polemic.
Newsday
The most important book that I have read this year.
Lawrence O'Donnell, The Last Word, MSNBC
I’ve never read a history book that is as insightful and at the same time as funny as this one.
Steven Johnson
This is a blockbuster of a book. Kurt Andersen is a dazzling writer and a perceptive student of the many layers of American life. Take a deep breath and dive in.
Tom Brokaw
Not only a must-read for anyone wanting to understand Trump’s America but also a laugh-out-loud undiluted pleasure
Will Storr, author of Selfie
Riveting…hugely entertaining.
Francis Wheen, Mail on Sunday
Charged with enough anger and wit to become necessary reading.
Observer