Kurt Andersen is the author of the novels True Believers, Heyday, and Turn of the Century, and has written for film, television, and stage. He is the host and co-creator of the Peabody Award winning Studio 360, a weekly radio show about arts and culture. 

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The US and UK paperback editions of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History -- an instant New York Times bestseller -- are out now. Read more about the book here, or order the paperback at po.st/K0lEWA   

US paperback

UK paperback

"A very stimulating, thought-provoking book on the nature of the American character from the very start. It really appealed to me. Kurt is a heck of a thinker."

Jeff Goldblum

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"A great revisionist history of America."

Sunday New York Times
Book Review

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"A stunning, sweeping explanation of how we got to Trump. The most important book that I have read this year."

Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC

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“If you’re trying to get a handle on how we landed in a pile of Trump, Fantasyland offers a clear, persuasive historical framework” in “prose that’s lucid, supple, and powered by paradox.”

The Boston Globe