A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250
years to build--and they'll start by canceling our shared history,
ideals, and culture.
Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on
what makes America special. We can't even agree that America is
special. We're coming to the point that we can't even agree what the
word America itself means. "Disintegrationists" say we're stronger
together, but their assault on America's history, philosophy, and
culture will only tear us apart.
Who are the disintegrationists? From Howard Zinn's A People's History
of the United States to the New York Times' 1619 project, many modern
analyses view American history through the lens of competing
oppressions, a racist and corrupt experiment from the very beginning.
They see American philosophy as a lie - beautiful words pasted over a
thoroughly rotted system. They see America's culture of rights as a
façade that merely reinforces traditional hierarchies of power, instead
of being the only culture that guarantees freedom for individuals.
Disintegrationist attacks on the values that built our nation are
insidious because they replace each foundational belief, from the rights
to free speech and self-defense to the importance of marriage and faith
communities, with nothing more than an increased reliance on the
government.
This twisted disintegrationist vision replaces the traditional
"unionist" understanding that all Americans are united in a shared
striving toward the perfection of universal ideals.
How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps shows that to be a cohesive
nation we have to uphold foundational truths about ourselves, our
history, and reality itself--to be unionists instead of
disintegrationists. Shapiro offers a vital warning that if we don't
recover these shared truths, our future--our union--as a great country
is threatened with destruction.
