{"product_id":"book-cx4d","title":"Bad Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike a lot of Americans, Steve Almond spent the weeks after the 2016 election lying awake, in a state of dread and bewilderment. The problem wasn’t just the election, but the fact that nobody could explain, in any sort of coherent way, why America had elected a cruel, corrupt, and incompetent man to the Presidency. \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is Almond’s effort to make sense of our historical moment, to connect certain dots that go unconnected amid the deluge of hot takes and think pieces. Almond looks to literary voices―from Melville to Orwell, from Bradbury to Baldwin―to help explain the roots of our moral erosion as a people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book argues that Trumpism is a bad outcome arising directly from the bad stories we tell ourselves. To understand how we got here, we have to confront our cultural delusions: our obsession with entertainment, sports, and political parody, the degeneration of our free press into a for-profit industry, our enduring pathologies of race, class, immigration, and tribalism. \u003ci\u003eBad Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a lamentation aimed at providing clarity. It’s the book you can pass along to an anguished fellow traveler with the promise, \u003ci\u003eThis will help you understand what the hell happened to our country\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49379502194992,"sku":"BDcx4d","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49379502227760,"sku":"10cx4d","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cx4d-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773833818","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cx4d","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}