Beautiful Country Burn Again

Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution

De: Ben Fountain

Narrado por: Ron Butler

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brilliant

if you want to know how we ended up in this mess, this book will open your eyes. brilliantly done.

Must read

Fountain takes all those thoughts, ideas and suspicions that have been floating around in your head since Clinton was elected and makes them coherent, hangs them on a framework and lights them up. It’s not a pretty sight but it is real and it’s ours to live with or modify if that’s even possible short of a national disaster.

Many Problems; Few Solutions

Within the first chapter or two, I wondered if I would have to fasten my seatbelt for a rollercoaster rant that was gathering in front of me. But once suitably secured-a few chapters later-I began to feel I wouldn't be only ranted at. Serious informational meat was overcoming the initial caterwauling. Mr. Fountain took awhile to get there, but there's a lot of deep-dive information here from a different perspective.

However, in enumerating the vast problems we as a society face, the story left me with far too few solutions or suggestions of solutions to begin to tackle these problems. I know it's easier to point out our collective failings but more difficult to point toward the direction where we might begin to correct those failings. Yet there's a lot to be learned in just casting light on those issues. Hopefully, the reader will be able to parse some answers from the listing of our failings.

Powerful, honest. and informative view of America

profound insight into America. Well written, even riveting performance provides insights into both political parties.

scorching history of America's Failure to Evolve

I first read Ben Fountain's "Long Half-time" which I put off for nearly a year, and was then captivated by his insight into America's obsession with mindless entertainments. I quickly looked for another of his insightful books and was blown away by his political journalization of the rise and fall of American Democracy in 2016. He does not direct the blame but distributes it amount all the players and the futility of American voters lost between the new politics of win at all costs and the monopoly rich demigods who control it.