Fault Lines

Reviews / Votes

"Refreshingly frank." -- Eric Wakin - The New York Times Book Review "Fault Lines is a brilliantly written and urgently needed account of the last half century of American history, decades during which, as Kruse and Zelizer argue, Americans abandoned a search for common ground in favor of a political culture of endless, vicious, and-very often-mindless division. A gripping and troubling account of the origins of our turbulent, desperate times." -- Jill Lepore, author of These Truths "Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer's Fault Lines is a brilliant primer for understanding the troubling precedents for today's mass American political dysfunction. Both historians are deeply informed and surefooted thinkers. A must-read foundational work for our time!" -- Douglas Brinkley, history commentator for CNN "[With] deep detail and taut-as-a-thriller pacing...the authors detail how the Democratic and-especially-Republican parties moved the country from post-New Deal liberalism to an increasingly hard-right philosophy, culminating with Trump...If Fault Lines doesn't provide easy answers to our current dilemma, its cleareyed, pin-sharp overview is a necessary map of how we got here." -- Michaelangelo Matos - Rolling Stone "Kruse and Zelizer do an admirable job of creating a narrative out of the chaotic events of the recent past." -- L. Benjamin Rolsky - Los Angeles Review of Books