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Bibliography Information:
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Collection:
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Adult Nonfiction |
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Call Number:
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973 |
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Author:
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Andersen, Kurt |
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Title:
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Fantasyland |
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Remainder of title:
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how America went haywire : a 500-year history / |
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Summary, etc. note:
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This is a important book-the indispensable book-for understanding America in the age of Trump |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9781400067213 |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9781588366870 (ebook) |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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n-us--- |
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Classification number:
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E169.1 |
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Item number:
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.A543 2017 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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973 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1954- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Kurt Andersen. |
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Edition statement:
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First edition. |
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Place of publication:
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New York ,NY |
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Name of publisher:
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Random House |
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Date of publication:
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2017 |
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New York : |
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Random House, |
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[2017] |
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Extent:
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462 pages |
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Dimensions:
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25 cm |
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rdacontent |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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General note:
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Includes index. |
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Formatted contents note:
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Now entering fantasyland -- Part I. The conjuring of America: 1517-1789 -- I believe, therefore I am right: the Protestants -- All that glitters: the gold-seekers -- Building our own private heaven on Earth: the puritans -- The God-given freedom to believe in God -- Imaginary friends and enemies: the early satanic panics -- The first me century: religion gets American -- Meanwhile, in the 18th century reality-based community -- Part II. United States of amazing: the 1800s -- The first great delirium -- The all-American fan fiction of Joseph Smith, prophet -- Quack nation: magical but modern ? -- Fantastic business: the gold rush inflection point -- In search of monsters to destroy: the conspiracy-theory habit -- The war between states of mind -- Ten million little houses on the prairie -- Fantasy industrialized -- Part III. A long arc bending toward reason: 1900-1960 -- Progress and backlash -- The biggest backlash: brand new old-time religion -- The business of America is show business -- Big rock candy mountains: utopia in the suburbs and the sun -- The 1950s seemed so normal -- Part IV. Big bang: the 1960s and 70s -- Big bang: the hippies -- Big bang: the intellectuals -- Big bang: the Christians -- Big bang: politics and government and conspiracies -- Big bang: living in a land of entertainment -- Part V. Fantasyland scales: from the 1980s through the turn of the century -- Making make-believe more realistic and real life more make-believe -- Forever young: kids r us syndrome -- The Reagan era and the start of the digital age -- American religion from the turn of the millennium -- Our wilder christianities: belief and practice -- America versus the godless civilized world: why are we so exceptional? -- Magical but not necessarily christian, spiritual but not religious -- Blue-chip witch doctors: the re-enchantment of medicine -- How the mainstream enabled fantasyland: squishies, cynics and believers -- Anything goes -- unless it picks my pocket or break my leg -- Part VI. The problem with fantasyland: from the 1980s to the present and beyond -- The inmates running the asylum decide monsters are everywhere -- Reality is a conspiracy: the x-filing of America -- Mad as hell, the new voice of the people -- When the GOP went off the rails -- Liberals denying science -- Gun crazy -- Final fantasy-industrial complex -- Our inner children? They're going to Disney World! -- The economic dreamtime -- As fantasyland goes, so goes the nation. |
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Source of acquisition:
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Donated by Andrew Feriman |
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Purchase price:
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30.00 |
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Subject:
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National characteristics, American |
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Subject:
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Popular culture |
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Subject:
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US History |
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General subdivision:
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History. |
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Geographic subdivision:
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United States |
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Geographic name:
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United States |
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General subdivision:
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Civilization. |
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acquire |
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2 shelf copies |
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policy default |
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rf08 2017-08-17 |
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rf10 2017-09-22 CIP ver. 2 copies to LOAN |
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rf08 2017-08-17 (telework) to Dewey |
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xm09 2017-08-17 |
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