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How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That’s Crippling Our Democracy (Volume 15) (The Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture Series) Hardcover – October 3, 2019

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Americans are losing touch with reality. On virtually every issue, from climate change to immigration, tens of millions of Americans have opinions and beliefs wildly at odds with fact, rendering them unable to think sensibly about politics. In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson explains the rise of a world of “alternative facts” and the slow-motion cultural and political calamity unfolding around us.

We don’t have to search far for the forces that are misleading us and tearing us apart: politicians for whom division is a strategy; talk show hosts who have made an industry of outrage; news outlets that wield conflict as a marketing tool; and partisan organizations and foreign agents who spew disinformation to advance a cause, make a buck, or simply amuse themselves. The consequences are severe. How America Lost Its Mind maps a political landscape convulsed with distrust, gridlock, brinksmanship, petty feuding, and deceptive messaging.

As dire as this picture is, and as unlikely as immediate relief might be, Patterson sees a way forward and underscores its urgency. A call to action, his book encourages us to wrest institutional power from ideologues and disruptors and entrust it to sensible citizens and leaders, to restore our commitment to mutual tolerance and restraint, to cleanse the Internet of fake news and disinformation, and to demand a steady supply of trustworthy and relevant information from our news sources.

As philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote decades ago, the rise of demagogues is abetted by “people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” In How America Lost Its Mind, Thomas E. Patterson makes a passionate case for fully and fiercely engaging on the side of truth and mutual respect in our present arms race between fact and fake, unity and division, civility and incivility.
 
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    Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lectures
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    University of Oklahoma Press
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    October 3, 2019
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  7. ISBN-10
    0806164328
  8. ISBN-13
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“How America Lost Its Mind is clearly a book Thomas E. Patterson wishes he did not have to write, but one that needed to be written. From time to time, scholarship should be alarmist. This book is the response of a reasoned, thinking person to a cultural and political calamity that he and many others saw unfolding in slow motion.”—Keith Gaddie, coauthor of The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
 

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Thomas E. Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of numerous articles and award-winning books, including Informing the News, The Vanishing Voter, Out of Order, The Mass Media Election, and The Unseeing Eye.
 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Oklahoma Press (October 3, 2019)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0806164328
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0806164328
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.63 x 8.5 inches
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  • Mannie Liscum
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wastes no time being unbalanced or trite!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2019
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    “How America Lost Its Mind” by Thomas Patterson is a short, tightly-written and impressive examination of American tribal politics of the 21st century. Patterson’s approach is extremely balanced, he spare neither ‘side’ (Democrats or Republicans) from their contributed guilt, nor does he merely throw up his arms in exasperation at the futile nature of present day American politics. At its heart “How America Lost Its Mind” is about the two vastly different realities our political left and right currently find themselves in, and how this is facilitated and enforced by our leaders, information systems and our own psychologies. In a highly readable, to-the-point fashion, Patterson walks us through: the basics of our current ‘information system’ and who we, the American citizens, have become Chapter 1. The Know Nothings); the Tribes that have resulted from these dynamics (Chapter 2); the major contributors to our polarized misinformation system (Chapters 3. The Disrupters/4. The Performers/5. The Marketers); and finally our chance to redeem ourselves (Chapter 6. The Level-Headed). This book should be required reading for any American who cares about our democracy and honestly wishes to make it better. This is not for a tribal partisan but it could convert a thoughtful partisan into a thoughtful ‘level-headed’ citizen. 5 Stars!
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  • Kels Webb
    5.0 out of 5 stars Recommend!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2020
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    This book has made me challenge my thinking and become more aware of the information I let in. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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  • Deedra
    4.0 out of 5 stars How America lost its mind
    Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2020
    I found this a very good,unbiased view of how we got to where we are today.It started before our current regime.Trump has only taken the bull by the horns and made America hate again.Around and around we go. Peter Lerman was a fine narrator. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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  • Mike
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2020
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    Couldn’t stop reading this book. I go back and read portions almost weekly.
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  • G Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Helps us understand today’s turmoil
    Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2020
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    Brilliant book. Timely and helps us understand today’s turmoil.
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  • Deeber
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tribalism Defined
    Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2020
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    Excellent, well written - but sad for our unity!
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  • Jeannette
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2020
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    Everyone should read this.
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  • Ron Keller
    5.0 out of 5 stars A book which can be read in one day but important enough to be read every day!
    Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2019
    In this hyper-partisan America which we live in, and which seems to grow more polarized with every news cycle, Professor Patterson simply but accurately nails what ails our political culture. In “How America Lost Its Mind,” Patterson pinpoints to the reality that in our current age of information, we have become lazy and rely too heavily upon misinformation. That misinformation has muddied the waters of truth, it has tainted our political views and blinded our impartiality, and it has further deepened the political fault lines, resulting in an dangerous inability to see beyond what we want to see and believe what we want to believe. Patterson writes: “We’re caught in an arms race between civility and incivility, fact and fake, unity and division, and it’s not clear that America’s better angels are winning.” (page 107)

    But Patterson does more than diagnose the problem. Thankfully, Professor Patterson also prescribes what it will take to regain some political sense. “How America Lost Its Mind” should be read by every politician, politico, and pundit. The book is an urgent call for all of us to seek the truth, and who want the best future for our democracy!
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