"[Corn is] a great journalist. I love the way he thinks. I love the
way he writes. I'm so glad he's done a super-readable, modern
history of the right...We just need smart, digestible history about
this stuff right now...[AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS] is perfectly
timed...Relevant history for where we are right now." -Rachel
Maddow, host, The Rachel Maddow Show "With AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS,
David Corn 'did the full homework to take us all the way back to
where it really begins.'" -Lawrence O'Donnell, host, The Last Word
A fast-paced, rollicking, behind-the-scenes account of how the GOP
since the 1950s has encouraged and exploited extremism, bigotry,
and paranoia to gain power, AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS offers readers a
brisk, can-you-believe-it journey through the netherworld of
far-right irrationality and the Republican Party's interactions
with the darkest forces in America. In a compelling and
thoroughly-researched narrative, Corn reveals the hidden history of
how the Party of Lincoln forged alliances with extremists, kooks,
racists, and conspiracy-mongers and fostered fear, anger, and
resentment to win elections-and how this led to Donald Trump's
triumph and the transformation of the GOP into a Trump personality
cult that foments and bolsters the crazy and dangerous excesses of
the right. The Trump-incited insurrectionist attack on the US
Capitol on January 6, 2021, was no aberration. AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS
shows it was a continuation of the long and deep-rooted Republican
practice of boosting and weaponizing the rage and derangement of
the right. The gripping tale in AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS covers the last
seven decades. From McCarthyism to the John Birch Society to
segregationists to the New Right to the religious right to Rush
Limbaugh to Newt Gingrich to the militia movement to Fox News to
Sarah Palin to the Tea Party to Trumpism, the Republican Party has
deliberately nurtured and exploited rightwing fear and loathing
fueled by paranoia, grievance, and tribalism. This powerful and
important account explains how one political party has harnessed
the worst elements in politics to poison the nation's discourse and
threaten American democracy.
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