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Description
Searing and insightful, Behold America tells the unknown history of two key American phrases, 'America First' and the 'American Dream', and the role they play in the struggle in modern America
Product details
| Published | 01 Jun 2018 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 384 |
| ISBN | 9781408894804 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Dimensions | 234 x 153 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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A ripping yarn ... Behold, America is an enthralling book ... Passionate, well-researched and comprehensive
Guardian
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Excoriating, brilliant
Ali Smith, Big Issue, Summer Reads
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Enormously entertaining. Churchwell is a careful and sensitive reader, writes with great vigour and has a magpie's eye for a revealing story
Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
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A fascinating history of the two intersecting tropes of modern America
New Statesman
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Lively and eminently readable … Churchwell has produced a timely and clearly argued book that makes a clear case for the intellectual parallels between the first third of the 20th century and our own
Financial Times
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[An] enlightening new cultural history … The shadow of the 45th President hangs over all 300 pages of Behold, America, a book designed expressly to demonstrate just how that history rhymes with the present … While it is indeed a history of two phrases, Behold, America is also a history of the people who used them … An American in the UK, [Churchwell] has the benefit of an outside perspective on the country of her birth, which is prone to national self-delusions just as grand as Britain's, if not more so. Behold, America punctures many of them
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