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Behold, America

Behold, America

A History of America First and the American Dream

by Sarah Churchwell
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/2019
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Selected as a 2018 Summer Read by The Sunday Times, Observer, I-Paper and The Big Issue 

'The American dream is dead,' Donald Trump said when announcing his candidacy for president in 2015. How would he revive it? By putting 'America First'. 

The "American Dream" and "America First" are two of the most loaded phrases in America today - and also two of the most misunderstood. As divides within America widen, Sarah Churchwell looks to the past to reveal what the surprising history of these two phrases can tell us about today.

ISBN:
9781408894774
9781408894774
Category:
History of ideas
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-07-2019
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
198x129mm
Weight:
0.27kg

"A ripping yarn...Behold, America is an enthralling book...Passionate, well-researched and comprehensive"
Guardian

"Excoriating, brilliant"
Ali Smith, Big Issue, Summer Reads

"Enormously entertaining. Churchwell is a careful and sensitive reader, writes with great vigour and has a magpie's eye for a revealing story"
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

"A fascinating history of the two intersecting tropes of modern America"
New Statesman

"Lively and eminently readable...Churchwell has produced a timely and clearly argued book that makes a clear case for the intellectual parallels between the first third of the 20th century and our own"
Financial Times

Sarah Churchwell

Sarah Churchwell is Professor of American Literature and Chair of Public Understanding of the Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the author of Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby and The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe.

Her literary journalism has appeared widely in newspapers including the Guardian, New Statesman, Financial Times, Times Literary Supplement and New York Times Book Review, and she comments regularly on arts, culture, and politics for television and radio, where appearances include Question Time, Newsnight and The Review Show.

She has judged many literary prizes, including the 2017 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction, the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction, and she was a co-winner of the 2015 Eccles British Library Writer's Award. Her new book, Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream, will be published by Bloomsbury in May 2018.

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History of ideas History: specific events & topics History of the Americas Historical & comparative linguistics Politics & government 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship Local history
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