{"product_id":"the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics-by-richard-hofstadter-9780241802007","title":"The Paranoid Style in American Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe classic - and very funny - account of the dark side of American politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican political life ... has served again and again as an arena for uncommonly angry minds\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow can a country be captured by rumours, surreal conspiracy theories, and the most brazen of conmen? The historian Richard Hofstadter asked these questions in the 1960s, amid fears of rising extremism in America. Yet his dazzling dissection of the paranoid worldview - a brew of overheated exaggeration, suspicion, and perceived victimhood, which can derail entire nations - is a lesson for the ages in the seductive politics of the irrational.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn an era where we feel assailed by endless paranoid public statements, Hofstadter's discussion of famous and obscure untruths, some of which have profoundly impacted American domestic and foreign policy, provides the antidote for the present day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47648348799212,"sku":"9780241802007","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241802007-the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics.jpg?v=1779257591","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics-by-richard-hofstadter-9780241802007","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}