A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

by Richard Slotkin

Book Overview

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Nonfiction

As culture wars pit us against each other, A Great Disorder looks to the myths that have shaped American identity and reveals how they have brought us to the brink of an existential crisis.

Red America and Blue America are so divided they could be two different countries, with wildly diverging views of why government exists and who counts as American. Their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674292383
• ISBN13: 9780674292383
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"