Lawrence O’Donnell
"A stunning, sweeping explanation of how we got to Trump. The most important book that I have read this year."
Lawrence O'Donnell, The Last Word, MSNBC
Hannah Rosin
"A great revisionist history of America."
Hannah Rosin, Sunday New York Times Book Review
Stephen Dubner
“Fantasyland presents the very best kind of idea—one that, in retrospect, seems obvious, but that took a seer like Kurt Andersen to piece together. The thinking and the writing are both dazzling; it’s an absolute joy to read and will leave your brain dancing with excitement long after you’re done.”
Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakanomics
Robert Darnton
"The book is not addressed to an academic audience—and so much the better. It is written with gusto; it is very funny; and it succeeds in ridiculing hogwash, past and present. Andersen writes as a modern Mencken: no pity for the 'booboisie,' no sympathy for religious claptrap, no holds barred in combatting political piffle."
Robert Darnton, New York Review of Books
Walter Isaacson
“This is an important book—the indispensable book—for understanding America in the age of Trump. It’s an eye-opening history filled with brilliant insights..."
Walter Isaacson, author of The Innovators, Steve Jobs, and Benjamin Franklin
Sarah Vowell
“Kurt Andersen is America’s voice of reason. What is he—Canadian? Reality-based citizens will still get a kick out of this winning romp through centuries of American delusion.”
Sarah Vowell, author of The Wordy Shipmates and Assassination Vacation
The Observer
"Necessary reading...frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline."
The Observer (London)
Tom Brokaw
"Kurt Andersen is a dazzling writer. This is a blockbuster of book. Take a deep breath and dive in."
Tom Brokaw
Boston Globe
“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
Steven Johnson
"I've never read a history book that's as insightful and at the same time as funny as this one."
Steven Johnson, author of How We Got to Now and Everything Bad is Good for You
Marc Maron
"It's a really great book. I'm grateful for it. It's an important book. This should be required reading."
Marc Maron, WTF