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Wrath - America Enraged (Hardcover)
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Wrath - America Enraged (Hardcover)
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Anger now dominates American politics. It wasn't always so. "Happy
Days Are Here Again" was FDR's campaign song in 1932. By contrast,
candidate Kamala Harris's 2020 campaign song was Mary J. Blige's
"Work That" ("Let 'em get mad / They gonna hate anyway"). Both the
left and right now summon anger as the main way to motivate their
supporters. Post-election, both sides became even more indignant.
The left accuses the right of "insurrection." The right accuses the
left of fraud. This is a book about how we got here-about how
America changed from a nation that could be roused to anger but
preferred self-control, to a nation permanently dialed to eleven.
Peter W. Wood, an anthropologist, has rewritten his 2007 book, A
Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America, which predicted the new era of
political wrath. In his new book, he explains how American culture
beginning in the 1950s made a performance art out of anger; how and
why we brought anger into our music, movies, and personal lives;
and how, having step by step relinquished our old inhibitions on
feeling and expressing anger, we turned anger into a way of
wielding political power. But the "angri-culture," as he calls it,
doesn't promise happy days again. It promises revenge. And a crisis
that could destroy our republic.
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