FAULT LINES
A History of the United States Since 1974
By Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer… Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer’s “Fault Lines” grafts a geologic metaphor onto three divisive threats to our democracy as suggested by Barack Obama in his January 2017 farewell address — economic, racial and political — while adding a fourth, gender and sexuality. The authors argue that these divisions have allowed the two parties, which are seen through the fractured lens of “the media,” to create a situation in which Americans have become more polarized than ever. CONT.
Eric Wakin (Stanford), New York Times Book Review