American Manifesto: WNYC’s Bob Garfield With Ken Auletta

American Manifesto: WNYC’s Bob Garfield in conversation with Ken Auletta

Do you fear for our democracy? Are you ready to throw in the towel? Don’t! This is your guidebook to reassembling our hyperpolarized American society, written by cohost of WNYC’s On the Media, Bob Garfield.

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BOB GARFIELD is the cohost of public radio’s weekly Peabody Awards–winning On the Media. Garfield has been a columnist/contributing editor for The Washington Post Magazine, The Guardian, and USA TODAY. He has also written for The New York Times, Playboy, The Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, and WIRED. He lives in the Washington, D.C., area.

PRAISE FOR AMERICAN MANIFESTO

“In the vast, bland American wasteland of homogenized, regurgitated media, there is a lone, heroic taco truck. Bob Garfield is that taco truck. Nourishing. Defiant. Also very smart and very brave. American Manifesto is his spicy masterpiece.” — Alec Baldwin

“Garfield’s (Bedfellows, 2012, etc.) manifesto stands out from those already published partly because of the specific proposals but mostly because of the breezy . . . tone . . . An interesting manifesto that will incite debate.” — Kirkus Reviews

“In American Manifesto, Bob Garfield bares our national soul, and it’s hellishly dark. We’ve divided ourselves by everything under the sun, eroding the idea of America as the common home of the many. With wit, passion, and insight, Garfield dissects the problem and issues a call to action. He will convince you that it’s time to get out the door.” — Thomas E. Patterson, Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard and author of How America Lost Its Mind

“In a time when explanations seem to be in short order and solutions virtually extinct, books like Bob Garfield’s American Manifesto are a godsend. Here is a serious, probing work that gets to the heart of why we’re in this political and cultural crisis and, miraculously enough, provides plausible solutions as to how to find our way out. Absolutely necessary reading.” — Jared Yates Sexton, author of The Man They Wanted Me to Be