Fault Lines

A History of the United States Since 1974

Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer

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Norton
08 February 2019

History

Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America.

In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social crises-Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s-had cracked the existing social order.

In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division, and a revolution in gender roles and sexual norms would deepen and fuel a polarized political landscape. In Fault Lines, leading historians Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer reveal how the divisions of the present day began almost four decades ago, and how they were echoed and amplified by a fracturing media landscape that witnessed the rise of cable TV, the internet, and social media.

How did the United States become so divided? Fault Lines offers one of the few comprehensive, wide-angle history views toward an answer.

By: Kevin M. Kruse, Julian E. Zelizer
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 743g
ISBN: 9780393088663
ISBN 10: 0393088669
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 08 February 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kevin M. Kruse is an award-winning scholar on twentieth-century American political history. Fault Lines grew out of the hugely popular course that he and Julian Zelizer co-created at Princeton University, The United States Since 1974. Julian E. Zelizer is an award-winning scholar on twentieth-century American political history. Fault Lines grew out of the hugely popular course that he and Kevin Kruse co-created at Princeton University, The United States Since 1974.

Reviews for Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974

[With] deep detail and taut-as-a-thriller pacing...the authors detail how the Democratic and-especially-Republican parties moved the country from post-New Deal liberalism to an increasingly hard-right philosophy, culminating with Trump...If Fault Lines doesn't provide easy answers to our current dilemma, its cleareyed, pin-sharp overview is a necessary map of how we got here. -- Michaelangelo Matos - Rolling Stone Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer's Fault Lines is a brilliant primer for understanding the troubling precedents for today's mass American political dysfunction. Both historians are deeply informed and surefooted thinkers. A must-read foundational work for our time! -- Douglas Brinkley, history commentator for CNN