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American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People by Jared Yates Sexton

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sydapel's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective slow-paced

The thesis of this book is that America has always been a capitalist, white supremacist country fueled by partisan media and the only way forward is to reckon with it, learn from it, and to stop putting our political figures on pedestals. And I absolutely agree. The author breaks down our sordid history by presidential figures and historical eras, covering some things I knew and some things that were unbeknownst to me (namely the turn of the Democratic party to centricity and neo-libreralism around the time of Clinton). If you're trying to understand our current hellscape, I recommend this wholeheartedly 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Violence, Slavery, and War

Moderate: Torture, Islamophobia, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Hate crime, and Classism

Minor: Homophobia, Police brutality, and Abortion