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Age of Fracture
Why did American ideas of society, power and identity break into smaller pieces after the nineteen seventies, as markets and individual choice gained ground?
At a glance
- Author
- Daniel T. Rodgers
Why read it
- You will notice how words like choice came to seem natural, as if they were reality itself and not metaphors
- You will see how ideas of race and womanhood split from one shared identity into many partial and chosen ones
- You will question whether perfect markets really remove the need to ask who holds power and how it works
Who it is for
- Reader puzzled by how politics split into sharper camps since the seventies
- History student tracing the roots of today's culture wars
- Economics reader curious how market language reached other fields
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