The Age of Grievance by Bruni, Frank

The Age of Grievance

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision." --Wall Street Journal - "The...
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Author: Frank Bruni
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The Age of Grievance by Bruni, Frank

The Age of Grievance

$43.00

The Age of Grievance

$43.00
Author: Frank Bruni
Format: Paperback
Language: English
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision." --Wall Street Journal - "The best prescription for our redemption." --The New York Times - "A wise and humane book for our foolish and cruel era." --Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left.

The twists and turns of American politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. It's one of grievance. More and more Americans are convinced that they're losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it. The blame game has become the country's most popular sport and victimhood its most fashionable garb.

Grievance needn't be bad. It has done enormous good. The United States is a nation born of grievance, and across the nearly two hundred and fifty years of our existence as a country, grievance has been the engine of morally urgent change. But what happens when all sorts of grievances--the greater ones, the lesser ones, the authentic, the invented--are jumbled together? When people take their grievances to lengths that they didn't before? A violent mob storms the US Capitol, rejecting the results of a presidential election. Conspiracy theories flourish. Fox News knowingly peddles lies in the service of profit. College students chase away speakers, and college administrators dismiss instructors for dissenting from progressive orthodoxy. Benign words are branded hurtful; benign gestures are deemed hostile. And there's a potentially devastating erosion of the civility, common ground, and compromise necessary for our democracy to survive.

How did we get here? What does it say about us, and where does it leave us? The Age of Grievance examines these critical questions and charts a path forward.

Author: Frank Bruni
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781668016442

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