TY - BOOK AU - Pakman,David TI - The echo machine: how right-wing extremism created a post-truth America SN - 9780807016534 AV - JK1726 .P357 2025 U1 - 306.20973 23/eng/20250131 PY - 2025///] CY - Boston PB - Beacon Press KW - Political culture KW - United States KW - Truthfulness and falsehood KW - Political aspects KW - Right and left (Political science) KW - Right-wing extremists KW - Mass media KW - Politics and government KW - 21st century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1: How the United States broke -- Chapter 2: What happened to critical thinking? -- Chapter 3: What are facts? -- Chapter 4: The cost of principles over problems -- Chapter 5: Why choose leftism? -- Chapter 6 How to fight against a movement that has no policy -- Chapter 7: Why does the right keep winning? --Chapter 8: How to (responsibly) consume media -- Chapter 9: What else can we do? N2 - "How right-wing extremism has led to the fall of critical thinking and rise of reactionary politics-and what we can do about it to save our democracy"-- ER -