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Review ofKill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism's Triumph Over Democracy. By Corey Dolgon (Bristol: Policy Press, 2018, 320pp.)The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies. By Susan Jacoby (London: Vintage Books, 2018, 364pp.)

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  • Joshua Parker, University of Salzburg Books reviewed: Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph Over Democracy

  • As American studies grapples with an era offering new fodder for thought on what America means as it moves well into the twenty-first century, two new general audience books look for the root causes of the shift in the political tone to study in America itself: namely, primary and secondary US education

  • Synthesizing a range of sources from de Tocqueville to Georg Simmel, to Lehman Brothers financial reports, to Noam Chomsky, Dolgon lowers charges against economic austerity, broken health care systems, the food industry, standardized testing and charter schools, “junk science,” and what Naomi Klein in 2007 dubbed “the shock doctrine,” suggesting a right-wing tactic common to them all: a logic of “kill it to save it,” a dangerously “common sense” approach to privatization and corporate profit-seeking within the public sphere

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Joshua Parker, University of Salzburg Books reviewed: Kill It to Save It: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s Triumph Over Democracy. As American studies grapples with an era offering new fodder for thought on what America means as it moves well into the twenty-first century, two new general audience books look for the root causes of the shift in the political tone to study in America itself: namely, primary and secondary US education.

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