{"product_id":"american-doom-loop-dispatches-from-a-troubled-nation-1980s-2020s-9798888451649","title":"American Doom Loop: Dispatches from a Troubled Nation, 1980s-2020s","description":"\u003cb\u003eMuch of the contemporary crazy can be traced to the 1980s--America of the 2020s is living with the cultural shapeshifting rooted in that decade.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmericans lived in a different reality in 1980: Vermont was the only state that let residents carry a concealed firearm without a permit. Twenty-four states now allow this--and numerous other gun laws have fallen by the wayside. When police were accused of wrongdoing, the default answer from society's arbiters--courts, politicians, newspaper editors--was: \"The police wouldn't lie.\" Editors steered clear of stories about rape and sexual violence. The word \"homeless\" wasn't in common use. The fabric of the middle class had not yet begun fraying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmerica of the 2020s is living with cultural shapeshifting rooted in the 1980s. History, of course, is not a snapshot--it's a film. To understand the United States today, we have to know the 1980s. \u003ci\u003eAmerican Doom Loop \u003c\/i\u003echronicles the first part of that moving picture, then brings the story forward. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a newspaper journalist, Dale Maharidge had a front-row seat to this decade, immersed in disparate worlds. He was in the Philippines during the last days of Dictator Ferdinand Marcos, witnessing the US lose a critical piece of its empire dating to the Spanish-American War; he traveled to Central America where the East-West conflict was playing out by proxy; he smuggled a Salvadoran family marked by death squads, driving them through trackless desert to the US border; he embedded with a group that was a precursor to the Oath Keepers; and he investigated police, who kept trying to get him fired. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough it all, Maharidge gained an invaluable view of a complicated decade that offers insight into our society today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dale Maharidge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Regalo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798888451649\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaharidge, Dale:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Dale Maharidge is the author of Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eAnd Their Children After Them\u003c\/i\u003e, and twelve other books. Among them is\u003ci\u003e Journey to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass\u003c\/i\u003e, which inspired Bruce Springsteen to write the song \"Youngstown.\" His most recent nonfiction book is \u003ci\u003eFucked at Birth\u003c\/i\u003e, and his novel\u003ci\u003e Burn Coast \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 2022\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He has written for the \u003ci\u003eNation, Smithsonian, Harper's Magazine, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. He was a 1988 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and is a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Regalo Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43949064519795,"sku":"9.79889E+12","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d57392a4-06fc-4226-896a-7152c1b848b6.jpg?v=1759330255","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/american-doom-loop-dispatches-from-a-troubled-nation-1980s-2020s-9798888451649","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}