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The Age of Grievance

The Age of Grievance

Frank Bruni

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ISBN: 9781668016435

Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 4/30/24

Binding: Hardcover

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Grade Range: NA-NA

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Language: English

BISAC: Political Science, Commentary & Opinion, Social Science, Popular Culture, Sociology, Social Theory, Anthropology, and Cultural & Social

Related Subjects: Political culture, United States, Social justice, Political parties, and Political participation

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Brilliant...Bruni writes with humor, insight, and precision." --The Wall Street Journal - "The best prescription for our redemption." --The New York Times - "A wise and humane book for our foolish and cruel era." --Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful examination of the ways in which grievance has come to define our current culture and politics, on both the right and left.

The twists and turns of American politics are unpredictable, but the tone is a troubling given. It's one of grievance. More and more Americans are convinced that they're losing because somebody else is winning. More and more tally their slights, measure their misfortune, and assign particular people responsibility for it. The blame game has become the country's most popular sport and victimhood its most fashionable garb.

Grievance needn't be bad. It has done enormous good. The United States is a nation born of grievance, and across the nearly two hundred and fifty years of our existence as a country, grievance has been the engine of morally urgent change. But what happens when all sorts of grievances--the greater ones, the lesser ones, the authentic, the invented--are jumbled together? When people take their grievances to lengths that they didn't before? A violent mob storms the US Capitol, rejecting the results of a presidential election. Conspiracy theories flourish. Fox News knowingly peddles lies in the service of profit. College students chase away speakers, and college administrators dismiss instructors for dissenting from progressive orthodoxy. Benign words are branded hurtful; benign gestures are deemed hostile. And there's a potentially devastating erosion of the civility, common ground, and compromise necessary for our democracy to survive.

How did we get here? What does it say about us, and where does it leave us? The Age of Grievance examines these critical questions and charts a path forward.

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