Stacking them up in one volume makes the reader alternately despondent and outraged. While Kakutani does an excellent job of reiterating all the misrepresentations, falsehoods, and outright lies of the Trump administration, most of us have heard all of them before. The president is a liar. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of She quotes many of them in this condensed argument regarding the loss of accepted facts in our current political discourse. Just look at anti-vaxxers and global warming deniers that reject the work of an overwhelming majority of scientists.Brilliantly researched and assembled by an author who is undeniably, a legend. Having finished now (after a more careful re-read from the start), I find it necessary to cut the rating to 3 for reasons discussed in the second part of the review.There is a certain amount of hubris in Kakutani's take that the world and politics revolves around literary trends and theories. Sad but true! Also, good footnotes provide a guide to further reading. I particularly liked the way she incorporated her extensive reading in fiction and non-fiction to provide examples and commentary on today's politics and how we got here. And is the preparation for the He lies until your temples throb. “Choose your metaphor,” she writes about Putin’s method, “muddying the waters, throwing chum to the sharks, cranking up the fog machine, flinging gorilla dust in the public’s eyes: It’s a tactic designed to create adrenal fatigue and news exhaustion.” For a passage about obfuscation, this is not particularly clarifying.Kakutani’s kitchen sink approach means that the profound and banal all end up occupying space next to one another, the president’s insidious assaults on the rule of law on one hand and Maybe that’s really the central problem here. There are references to Orwell, Arendt, Tocqueville, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Philip Roth, Neil Postman, Tom Wolfe, along with contemporary writers on the politics of truth and polarization from Masha Gessen to Tim Wu.
I agree with what she says and wish more people would read this book.While I agree with the author, there is nothing new here. It’s informative, extremely well written, and there is no personal mud slinging. She attributes much of this phenomenon to postmodernist arguments that challenge consensus opinion in favor of marginal ones. And if you don’t like the tone of modern politics, it is the best book you’ve read in a couple of decades. She is just preaching to the choir. Trump, she writes, is “emblematic of dynamics that have been churning beneath the surface of daily life for years, creating the perfect ecosystem in which Veritas, the goddess of truth … could fall mortally ill.”Kakutani is, obviously, nothing if not well read, but the book is so full of citations and allusions it can almost feel as though the author’s own argument is getting lost, if there is an original argument to be found at all. She writes about the roles that the internet, Russians, the GOP and Democrats, news organizations, the white working class, Brietbart and Bannon, and most every other player have in the current debacle that is AIn clear and intelligent prose, Kakutani explains how we got from 1960's counterculture to our current, post-truth, era of Trump. Welcome back. If you don’t like Trump, this will be the best book you’ve read since he descended the gilded escalator. When there is no truth or facts beyond dispute then the biggest megaphone wins. As much as I want to buy in whole hog, the hubris is the downfall of the book. —OTTO RANK. Jul 17, 2018 | ISBN 9780525574828
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