Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution Audiobook (Free)

In a sweeping work of reportage established during the period of 2016, NY Times bestselling author Ben Fountain recounts a surreal year of politics and an exploration of the third American existential crisis

Double before in its background, america has been faced with a crisis so severe it was forced to reinvent itself to be able to survive: first, the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil Battle, and the second, the Great Depression, which led to President Roosevelt’s New Deal and the on the subject of Beautiful Country Burn Once again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution establishment of America being a social-democratic state. In a series of essays that excavate days gone by while laying bare the politics upheaval of 2016, Ben Fountain argues that america may be facing another existential crisis, one which will demand a “burning” from the old order as America tries to remake itself.

Beautiful Country Burn Again narrates a shocking year in American politics, moving from the early days of the Iowa Caucus towards the crystalizing moments from the Democratic and Republican national conventions, and culminating in the aftershocks from the weeks following election night. Along the way, Fountain probes deeply into background, illuminating the makes and watershed occasions of the past that mirror and precipitated the present, from the hollowed-out notion of the American Fantasy, to Richard Nixon’s southern strategy, to our weaponized new conception of American exceptionalism, towards the cult of superstar that provided rise to Donald Trump.

In an urgent and deeply incisive voice, Ben Fountain has fused history and present to paint a startling portrait of the state of our nation. Gorgeous Country Burn Once again is certainly a searing indictment of how we came to this aspect, and where we may be headed.