Red, White and Blown

Is the United States of America a Cult?

Guy Rundle

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Hardie Grant Books
21 June 2023

History; General & world history; History of the Americas; Politics & government; International relations

Series: The Crikey Read

From renowned journalist Guy Rundle, Red, White and Blown is a piercing and provocative investigation into the United States' resolute failure to reckon with its own divisions and blind spots. Interrogating the political events of the 2022 midterm elections as well as their cultural and historical backdrop, this latest book from the Crikey Reads series asks us to frankly consider the US for what it may have ultimately become: a cult.

From the Orange People in Oregon to the Moonies with their stadium weddings, the US is a country where cults have easily taken a foothold since the 1970s. But do those crazed origins stem much further back? Could the US perhaps itself be likened to a cult – one that has acquired immense power and imposed its vision on millions, but has now found its impossible fantasy collapsing from within, prompting it to do what cults always do: believe in magic and look for enemies?

With this necessary and fresh perspective, Rundle allows us to slot the inexplicable nature of the US into place. Red, White and Blown gives the Australian reader a tour through the embattled republic and poses a question: why are we slavishly attaching ourselves to a potential cult, when we have so far successfully avoided the very things that have made the US so?

From Crikey and Hardie Grant Books, The Crikey Read is a series that brings an unflinching and truly independent eye to the issues of the day in Australia and the world.

By: Guy Rundle
Imprint: Hardie Grant Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 135mm,
Weight: 160g
ISBN: 9781743799581
ISBN 10: 1743799586
Series: The Crikey Read
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 21 June 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Guy Rundle is currently correspondent-at-large for Crikey, for whom he has covered 7 US elections. He is a longtime editor at Arena Quarterly, and his most recent books are Practice and Between the Last Oasis and the Next Mirage, both edited collections.