Wrath: America Enraged by Wood, Peter W.
Wrath: America Enraged by Wood, Peter W.

Wrath: America Enraged

Anger now dominates American politics. It wasn't always so. "Happy Days Are Here Again" was FDR's campaign...
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SKU: 9781641772198
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Author: Peter W. Wood
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Wrath: America Enraged by Wood, Peter W.

Wrath: America Enraged

€44,50
Wrath: America Enraged by Wood, Peter W.

Wrath: America Enraged

€44,50
Author: Peter W. Wood
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

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.

Author: Peter W. Wood
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781641772198

About the Author

Peter W. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars. A former professor of anthropology and college provost, he is the author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project (2020); and other books about American culture, including Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (2003); A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2007); Diversity Rules (2020). He is editor-in-chief of the journal Academic Questions and a widely published essayist. In 2019, he received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for contributions to academic freedom.


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