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History. Politics. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.Lawrence ODonnell

How did we get here?

In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that whats happening in our country todaythis post-factual, fake news moment were all living throughis not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA.

Over the course of five centuriesfrom the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrialsour love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasiesevery citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails.

Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in.Tom Brokaw

[An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of Americas cultural history.Newsday

Compelling and totally unnerving.The Village Voice

A frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline that would have the founding fathers weeping into their beards.The Guardian

This is an important bookthe indispensable bookfor understanding America in the age of Trump.Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History af Kurt Andersen (2017)

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    Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News af Kevin Young (TheAmpersand)
    TheAmpersand: A more academic, more difficult, but ultimately more satisfying take on many of the themes dealt with here.
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This is an extraordinary book with lots of history about the US as a nation built on fantasy and delusion, finally culminating in Trump and the crazy beliefs of many 'Mericans. I highly recommend it. Those who love the story of the Pilgrims will be disturbed. ( )
  RickGeissal | Aug 16, 2023 |
If ever there was a book I should have DNF'd early on, this was it. Anderson's hypothesis, if you will, is that the United States was birthed in fantasy (the gold rush) and over time, our populace has become so enamored with fantasy that we ended up with Donald Trump as our president.

And his "proof" is anecdote after anecdote (described in a historical context) about the uniquely (ok, sure) American love of fantasy. Well, yeah, if you conflate every form of entertainment and pleasure seeking with fantasy, I guess he might have a point. Anderson starts by going after religion, but before you know it, everything from Disneyworld to fantasy sports to the suburbs has lead to the downfall of our society. No other countries have any of these things, right (eye roll)?

This review isn't very good. That's because this book alternately made me sleepy and angry. For three weeks. I don't even want to give it any more mindshare than I already have. It's a thesis argued with 90% opinion and a problem with absolutely no solution. Can we please leave this type of conjecture to true historians going forward? ( )
  Anita_Pomerantz | Mar 23, 2023 |
Ok, boomer.

The premise is on point, the book is well researched, but the lens is totally myopic. It's been fantasy since Sumeria, not just when the world changed around the author's perception. I don't regret finishing it but a part of me wished I walked. ( )
  zomgpwnbbq | Mar 18, 2023 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
The key point: if you have a belief you can always find "facts" to support it. ( )
  addunn3 | Feb 27, 2022 |
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"The easiest thing of all to deceive in oneself; for we believe whatever we want to believe." -Demosthenes
"Increasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -Philip K. Dick
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For the people who taught me to think--Jean and Bob Andersen, and the teachers of Omaha's District 66.
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Now Entering Fantasyland. This book has been germinating for a long time.
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Western civilization’s first great advertising campaign was created in order to inspire enough dreamers and suckers to create America.
Hutchinson is so American because she was so confident in herself, in her intuitions and idiosyncratic, subjective understanding of reality. She’s so American because, unlike the worried, pointy-headed people around her, she didn’t recognize ambiguity or admit to self-doubt. Her perceptions and beliefs were true because they were hers and because she felt them so thoroughly to be true.... American Christianity in the twenty-first century resembles Hutchinson’s version more than it does the official Christianity of her time.
THE BIG PIECE of secular conventional wisdom about Protestantism has been that it gave a self-righteous oomph to moneymaking and capitalism—hard work accrues to God’s glory, success looks like a sign of His grace. But it seems clear to me the deeper, broader, and more enduring influence of American Protestantism was the permission it gave to dream up new supernatural or otherwise untrue understandings of reality and believe them with passionate certainty.
This country began as an empty vessel for pursuing fantasies of easy wealth or utopia or eternal life—a vessel of such spaciousness that an assortment of new fantasies could be spun off perpetually. That had never happened before. Ordinary individuals took the initiative and improvised a country out of a wilderness, reshaped the world. That had never happened before, either.
...the eventual result was an anything-goes relativism that extends beyond religion to almost every kind of passionate belief: If I think it’s true, no matter why or how I think it’s true, then it’s true, and nobody can tell me otherwise. That’s the real-life reductio ad absurdum of American individualism. And it would become a credo of Fantasyland.
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History. Politics. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.Lawrence ODonnell

How did we get here?

In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that whats happening in our country todaythis post-factual, fake news moment were all living throughis not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA.

Over the course of five centuriesfrom the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrialsour love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasiesevery citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails.

Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in.Tom Brokaw

[An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of Americas cultural history.Newsday

Compelling and totally unnerving.The Village Voice

A frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline that would have the founding fathers weeping into their beards.The Guardian

This is an important bookthe indispensable bookfor understanding America in the age of Trump.Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci.

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