Longlisted for the National Book Award in Nonfiction
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
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 ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing irreconcilable visions of patriotism and national identity.
A Great Disorder is a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today’s culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America’s foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics. Famous for his trilogy on the Myth of the Frontier, Richard Slotkin identifies five myths, born of different eras, that have shaped our conception of what it means to be American: the myths of the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (which he breaks into two opposing camps, Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War, embodied by the multiethnic platoon fighting for freedom. His argument is that while Trump and his MAGA followers have played up a frontier-inspired hostility to the federal government and rallied around Confederate symbols to champion a racially exclusive definition of American nationality, Blue America, taking its cue from the protest movements of the 1960s, envisions a limitlessly pluralistic country in which the federal government is the ultimate enforcer of rights and opportunities. American history—and the foundations of our democracy—have become a battleground. It is not clear at this time which vision will prevail.
"Sweeping…The culmination of a prolific career and a new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars." - New York Times Book Review
"[An] exciting and detailed new decoder ring of a book…While it is usually hyperbolic to claim that a book will change your life, this one may well have a permanent effect on how you consume and think about American political news…Slotkin is a heavy-hitting theorist who also happens to be a lucid writer about the breaking events of his own era—a rare breed in academia." - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Impressively, [Slotkin] brings his discussion of national myths all the way to the present, exploring the visions of America’s history and future delineated by today’s radical right…He presents a well-informed analysis of the origins of today’s culture war politics." - London Review of Books
"Brisk, bold, and thought-provoking." - Arts Fuse
"Offers a consistently revelatory lens through which to understand the evolution of popular beliefs and the imaginative dynamics at work during watershed historical moments…A wonderfully clear, cogent account of the stakes involved in American mythology." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"An ambitious and brilliant new book…one of the best single volumes to cover the span of American history and to demonstrate the relevance of the American past to the American present." - Irish Times
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
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 ideologies are grounded in different versions of American history, endorsing irreconcilable visions of patriotism and national identity.
A Great Disorder is a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today’s culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America’s foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics. Famous for his trilogy on the Myth of the Frontier, Richard Slotkin identifies five myths, born of different eras, that have shaped our conception of what it means to be American: the myths of the Frontier, the Founding, the Civil War (which he breaks into two opposing camps, Emancipation and the Lost Cause), and the Good War, embodied by the multiethnic platoon fighting for freedom. His argument is that while Trump and his MAGA followers have played up a frontier-inspired hostility to the federal government and rallied around Confederate symbols to champion a racially exclusive definition of American nationality, Blue America, taking its cue from the protest movements of the 1960s, envisions a limitlessly pluralistic country in which the federal government is the ultimate enforcer of rights and opportunities. American history—and the foundations of our democracy—have become a battleground. It is not clear at this time which vision will prevail.
"Sweeping…The culmination of a prolific career and a new way to make sense not only of the past, but of the contemporary culture wars." - New York Times Book Review
"[An] exciting and detailed new decoder ring of a book…While it is usually hyperbolic to claim that a book will change your life, this one may well have a permanent effect on how you consume and think about American political news…Slotkin is a heavy-hitting theorist who also happens to be a lucid writer about the breaking events of his own era—a rare breed in academia." - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Impressively, [Slotkin] brings his discussion of national myths all the way to the present, exploring the visions of America’s history and future delineated by today’s radical right…He presents a well-informed analysis of the origins of today’s culture war politics." - London Review of Books
"Brisk, bold, and thought-provoking." - Arts Fuse
"Offers a consistently revelatory lens through which to understand the evolution of popular beliefs and the imaginative dynamics at work during watershed historical moments…A wonderfully clear, cogent account of the stakes involved in American mythology." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"An ambitious and brilliant new book…one of the best single volumes to cover the span of American history and to demonstrate the relevance of the American past to the American present." - Irish Times
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