{"product_id":"american-manifesto-isbn-9781640094611","title":"American Manifesto","description":"\u003cb\u003eDo you fear for our democracy? Are you ready to throw in the towel? Don't! This is your guidebook to reassembling our hyperpolarized American society in six (not-so-easy) steps, written by the cohost of WNYC's \u003ci\u003eOn the Media\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs is often observed, Trump is a symptom of a virus that has been incubating for at least fifty years. But not often observed is where the virus is imbedded: in the psychic core of our identity. In \u003ci\u003eAmerican Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves\u003c\/i\u003e, popular media personality Bob Garfield examines the tragic confluence of the American preoccupation with identity and the catastrophic disintegration of the mass media. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGarfield investigates how we've gotten to this moment when our identity is threatened by both the left and the right, when e pluribus unum is no longer a source of national pride, and why, when looking through this lens of identity, the rise of Trumpism is no surprise. Overlaying this crisis is the rise of the Facebook-Google duopoly and the filter bubble of social media, where identity is insular and immutable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut fear not! WNYC's \u003ci\u003eOn the Media\u003c\/i\u003e cohost Garfield has ideas about how we may counter the forces of fragmentation—the manifesto itself: six steps to take to reassemble our fractured society. A quick, fascinating read, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Manifesto \u003c\/i\u003eoffers not only a vision of a country in extremis, but also a plan for how to address the ways in which our democracy is imperiled. Provocative, profound, and sometimes hilariously profane, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to action like no other.\"In the vast, bland American wasteland of homogenized, regurgitated media, there is a lone, heroic taco truck. Bob Garfield is that taco truck. Nourishing. Defiant. Also very smart and very brave. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e is his spicy masterpiece.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Alec Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Short, specific, and droll. It is very much worth reading, for ideas about the next stage in the world's recovery from failed, weak, and in other ways troubled media systems.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James Fallows, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Longtime media critic and journalist Garfield examines the salient factors that shaped American politics prior to the 2016 election and that continue to influence voter attitudes as the 2020 campaigns get underway . . . Garfield offers practical advice on how to transform outrage into positive action. Fans of his Peabody Award-winning public radio program, \"On the Media,\" will recognize Garfield's bold yet grounded humor, while his trenchant analysis and surprisingly hopeful vision will motivate readers to pay attention and get involved.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eAmerican Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, Bob Garfield bares our national soul, and it's hellishly dark. We've divided ourselves by everything under the sun, eroding the idea of America as the common home of the many. With wit, passion, and insight, Garfield dissects the problem and issues a call to action. He will convince you that it's time to get out the door.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University and author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow America Lost Its Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"In a time when explanations seem to be in short order and solutions virtually extinct, books like Bob Garfield's \u003ci\u003eAmerican Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e are a godsend. Here is a serious, probing work that gets to the heart of why we're in this political and cultural crisis and, miraculously enough, provides plausible solutions as to how to find our way out. Absolutely necessary reading.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jared Yates Sexton, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Man They Wanted Me to Be\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Bob Garfield speaks truth not just to power, but to the dangerously disempowered. Unflinchingly direct yet courageously sympathetic, his \u003ci\u003eAmerican Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs the most infectious media virus of all time. Here is the vaccination that our collective immune system so desperately needs.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Douglas Rushkoff, author of \u003ci\u003ePresent Shock\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTeam Human\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBob Garfield\u003c\/b\u003e is the cohost of WNYC's weekly Peabody Award–winning \u003ci\u003eOn the Media\u003c\/i\u003e. Garfield has been a columnist and contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as an author, lecturer, podcaster, and broadcast personality on ABC, CBS, CNBC, PBS, and NPR. 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