American Rule

How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed its People

American Rule
Jared Yates Sexton
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Hardback
h228 x 152mm - 448pg
17 Sep 2020 US
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9781524745714
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In recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying developments in politics and culture- stolen elections, fascist rallies, families torn apart and locked away. A common refrain erupts at each new atrocity- This isn' t who we are. In American Rule, Jared Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the foundational myths at the heart of our collective American imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values, which are fed to the public and repeated across generations. Working through each era of American growth and change, Sexton weaves together the origins and perpetuation of these narratives still in the public memory, and the acts we have chosen to forget. Stirring, deeply researched, and disturbingly familiar, American Rule is a call to examine our own misconceptions of what it means, and has always meant, to be an American.
"Jared Yates Sexton unmasks the horrors of the Trump era--and the fictions that have been created to whitewash them--by rooting them in the stories we have told ourselves for two centuries to hide away the white supremacy, violent conquest and subjugation, xenophobia, nativist nationalism and plutocracy that have periodically darkened our history. A historical strip-mining that' s as brutal as the past it uncovers--and the present political moment it lays bare. " --Greg Sargent, author of An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics"Coming to terms with the aftermath of Trump' s election in 2016, Jared Yates Sexton, like so many, realized he had been taught a deeply partial version of American history, one that couldn' t explain where the country had suddenly found itself. Impressively researched, vividly written, impassioned and ambitious, American Rule tells the other side of the story, offering a counter-history that resists received narratives and takes a bold, urgent step toward reframing the histories of America the nation choose to tell itself. " --Sarah Churchwell, author of Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream"
Jared Yates Sexton is the author of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore and The Man They Wanted Me to Be. His political writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Sexton is also the author of three collections of fiction and a crime novel, and is an associate professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781524745714
Published: 17 Sep 2020
Published In: United States
Imprint: E P Dutton & Co Inc
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Format: Hardback
Height: 228mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 448

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