Fantasyland
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What’s it about?
A provocative history of America's love affair with fantasy, from Puritan zealots to P.T. Barnum to Trump, showing how make-believe became a national addiction that now threatens reality itself.
You’ll learn
- America was founded on fantasy as much as reason
- How mass media commercialized make-believe
- The 1960s counterculture as Fantasyland's culmination
- Why the right built a parallel reality