TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andersen,Kurt
TI  - Evil geniuses: the unmaking of America : a recent history 
SN  - 9781984801340 :
AV  - HC110.W4 A53 2020
U1  - 330.973 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Random House
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Big business
KW  - Corporate power
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social condtions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-405) and index
N2  - "Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their harsh new rich-get-richer system in patriotic old-time drag, making it their mission to take over the government for their purposes alone and convincing the country that the mid-century consensus about the function of the American government was all wrong. Only a writer with Andersen's crackling energy, deep intelligence, and ability to see complex systems with clarity could make such a vital book both intellectually formidable and completely entertaining. In his diagnosis of what happened and what it means for us today, Andersen spares no one, committing to a pinpointing of his own boomer generation as accessories to the great dismantling of the American experiment"--
ER  -