Under the Cover of Chaos
Trump and the Battle for the American Right
$56.74
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
19 January 2018
Summary
Are Donald Trump’s irrationality, cruelty, and bombast symptoms of his personality? Is the chaos surrounding him a sign of his incompetence? Are his populism, illiberalism and nationalism just cynical appeals to existing feelings of abandonment, resentment and rage?
Lawrence Grossberg shows that the truth is bigger and more frightening. Locating Trumpism in the long struggle among traditional conservatism, the new right and the reactionary right, he suggests that the chaos is far mo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745337913 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0745337910 |
| Author: | Lawrence Grossberg |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 19 January 2018 |
| Weight: | 217g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
‘A profound and insightful analysis of the diverse forces that have led to Trump’s election. Everyone should read this book if they want to understand the rise of authoritarianism in the United States’
– Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest, author of On Critical Pedagogy‘This is a timely book, to say the least. Beyond the moment, however, Grossberg’s vision is thought-provoking, stirring, even exciting as well as frightening because it shows that there are new things to say about the morass of American and other democratic politics today and new ways to understand our situation. It’s also a rattling good read’
– Meaghan Morris, University of SydneyAbout The Author
Lawrence Grossberg
Lawrence Grossberg has been writing about popular culture, youth culture and political culture in post-WW2 United States, for over four decades. He is the Morris Davis Distinguished Professor in Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina. He is internationally recognised as a leading figure in Cultural Studies, and his work has been translated into eighteen languages. He is the author of Under the Cover of Chaos (Pluto, 2017), We All Want to Change the World (2015), Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (Duke, 2010) and Caught in the Crossfire (Routledge, 2005) amongst many other works.
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