{"product_id":"the-trouble-with-reality-brooke-gladstone","title":"The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic In Our Time; Brooke Gladstone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery week on the public radio show\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eOn the Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the award-winning journalist Brooke Gladstone analyzes the media and how it shapes our perceptions of the world. Now, from her front-row perch on the day’s events, Gladstone brings her genius for making insightful, unexpected connections to help us understand what she calls—and what so many of us can acknowledge having—“trouble with reality.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eReality, as she shows us, was never what we thought it was—there is always a bubble, people are always subjective and prey to stereotypes. And that makes reality actually more vulnerable than we ever thought. Enter Donald J. Trump and his team of advisors. For them, as she writes, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003elying is the point\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The more blatant the lie, the easier it is to hijack reality and assert power over the truth. Drawing on writers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Walter Lippmann, Philip K. Dick, and Jonathan Swift, she dissects this strategy, straight out of the authoritarian playbook, and shows how the Trump team mastered it, down to the five types of tweets that Trump uses to distort our notions of what’s real and what’s not.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd she offers hope. There is meaningful action, a time-tested treatment for moral panic. And there is also the inevitable reckoning. History tells us we can count on it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBrief and bracing, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Trouble with Reality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shows exactly why so many of us didn’t see it coming, and how we can recover both our belief in reality—and our sanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMay 16, 2017\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrooke Gladstone\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis an American journalist and media analyst. She is cohost of NPR's On the Media and a former senior editor at Weekend Edition and All Things Considered. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"AuthorPreview\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"FeaturedPerson\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"TruncatedContent\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"contentContainer\" class=\"TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--medium\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Formatted\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44823469195586,"sku":"","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/products\/reality.jpg?v=1679716603","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/the-trouble-with-reality-brooke-gladstone","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}