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23:00 mins Jared
Yates
Sexton is
the author of The
Man
They
Wanted
Me to
Be and The
People
Are
Going
to Rise
Like
the
Waters
Upon
Your
Shore. His
political writing has appeared in publications
including The
New
York
Times, The
New
Republic, Politico, and
Salon.com. Sexton is also the author of three collections of
fiction and is an associate professor of creative writing at
Georgia Southern University.
From
writer
and
political
analyst
Jared
Yates
Sexton
comes
a journey
through
the
history
of the
United
States,
from
the
nation’s
founding
to the
twenty-first
century,
which
examines
and
debunks
the
American
myths
we’ve
always
told
ourselves. In
recent years, Americans have faced a deluge of horrifying
developments in politics and culture: stolen elections, fascist
rallies, families torn apart and locked away. A common refrain
erupts at each new atrocity: This
isn’t
who
we are.
In American
Rule, Jared
Yates Sexton upends those convenient fictions by laying bare the
foundational myths at the heart of our collective American
imagination. From the very origins of this nation, Americans in
power have abused and subjugated others; enabling that corruption
are the many myths of American exceptionalism and steadfast values,
which are fed to the public and repeated across generations.
Working through each era of American growth and change, Sexton
weaves together the origins and perpetuation of these narratives
still in the public memory, and the acts we have chosen to
forget. Stirring, deeply researched, and disturbingly
familiar, American
Rule is
a call to examine our own misconceptions of what it means, and has
always meant, to be an American.
In
prior lives, Jarvis was creator and founding editor of
Entertainment Weekly; president and creative director of
Advance.net (online arm of Advance Publications); Sunday editor and
associate publisher of the New
York
Daily
News; a columnist
on the San
Francisco
Examiner.