Kurt Andersen's last book, Fantasyland, looks at America's "centuries-old weakness for the untrue and irrational, and its spontaneous and dangerous flowering since the 1960s" and how it got us where we are today.

His new book, Evil Geniuses, is a kind of sequel, a companion. It's a parallel history, really, that looks more closely at "the quite deliberate reengineering of our economy and society since the 1960s."

This hour, public radio great Kurt Andersen on "the unmaking of America."

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Kurt Andersen - Co-founded Spy magazine and he was the host and co-creator of Studio 360; his newest book is Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America — A Recent History

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Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired September 23, 2020.

<a href="https://wnpr.org/post/hour-kurt-andersen">Kurt Andersen's last book,&nbsp;Fantasyland</a>, looks at America's "centuries-old weakness for the untrue and irrational, and its spontaneous and dangerous flowering since the 1960s" and how it got us where we are today.
His new book,&nbsp;Evil Geniuses, is a kind of sequel, a companion. It's a parallel history, really, that looks more closely at "the quite deliberate reengineering of our economy and society since the 1960s."
This hour, public radio great Kurt Andersen on "the unmaking of America."
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<li>Kurt Andersen&nbsp;- Co-founded&nbsp;Spy&nbsp;magazine and he was the host and co-creator of&nbsp;Studio 360; his newest book is&nbsp;Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America &mdash; A Recent History</li>
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Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired September 23, 2020.

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