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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1956763376
ISBN-13
9781956763379
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15057287258
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mysterious Country : the Grace and Fragility of American Democracy
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Political Process / General, United States / 20th Century, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
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" Democracy is a grace. Democracy is something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Democracy, in fact, depends on the notion that there are more people who are good than bad, and that's a very large notion. Fascism goes back to our infancy and our childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, 'Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that.' So, the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory."--Norman Mailer, from remarks at a New York Public Library event, June 27, 2007
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Published on the centenary of Norman Mailer's birth, a timely and urgent call to preserve our democracy From his bestselling first novel, The Naked and the Dead , to his last work, American democracy was a lifelong project for Norman Mailer. It was his grand theme. Nearly all of his books touched on the pros and cons, the strengths and weaknesses, the grace (to use his word) and fragility of the American experiment as well as the threats to it--from autocratic leaders and a complacent citizenry, from violent protest and radical conservative assaults on it, from "soft fascism" and the ills of racism and poverty. In the sharp and impassioned language of a political Cassandra and with the eye of a novelist and journalist, he explored the underlying psychological, social, and economic causes of the country's fragile polity and offered urgent prescriptions for its reinvigoration. A Mysterious Country is a carefully selected collection of Mailer's most incisive--and sometimes remarkably prophetic--commentary on American democracy and what must be done to safeguard it. The anthology draws on both published and unpublished sources, from Mailer's great works of narrative nonfiction and novels as well as essays, interviews, letters, speeches, and talk show appearances. It includes pungent remarks on every president from FDR through George W. Bush, as well as correspondence with several. Throughout, what shines through is Mailer's passion for our democratic project--as well as the freedom that comes with it--and a keen awareness of its potential for failure, its virtues, and what is required of us to keep it intact.
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