michael5000 's review for:

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History by Kurt Andersen

4.0

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Good coverage of the history of bullshit in the United States, although the argument that the U.S. has a special susceptibility to bullshit is hampered by a lack of consideration of, and apparent ignorant of, bullshit in other places.  It's provocative, in a good way, to see episodes that are often celebrated as instances of American freedom of thought reconsidered as American spewing of nonsense.  It is, certainly, a sound enough collection to be pretty discouraging.