Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Carlson, Tucker

Published by Free Press , an imprint of Simon & Schuster, New York, 2018

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As new condition white boards/blue spine/gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Introduction: Our Ship of Fools; Epilogue: Righting the Ship; and Acknowledgments. "Trump's election wasn't about Trump. It was a throbbing middle finger in the face of America's ruling class. It was a gesture of contempt, a howl of rage, the end result of decades of selfish and unwise decisions made by selfish and unwise leaders. Happy countries don't elect Donald Trump president. Desperate ones do. "In retrospect, the lesson seemed obvious: Ignore voters for long enough and you get Donald Trump. Yet the people at whom the message was aimed never received it. Instead of pausing, listening, thinking, and changing, America's ruling class withdrew into a defensive crouch." - from the Introduction "You look on in horror, helpless, and desperate. You have nowhere to go. You're trapped on a ship of fools." - from the Introduction "In [the book, the author] tells the story of the new American elites, a group whose power and wealth has grown beyond imagination even as the rest of the country has withered. The people who run America now barely interact with it. They fly on their own planes, ski on their own mountains, watch sporting events far from the stands in sky-boxes. They have total contempt for you. "They view America the way a private equity firm sizes up an aging conglomerate," Carlson writes, "as something outdated they can profit from. When it fails, they're gone." In Ship of Fools, Tucker Carlson offers a blistering critique of our new overlords. Traditional liberals are gone, he writes. The patchouli-scented hand -wringers who worried about whales and defended free speech have been replaced by globalists who hide their hard-edged economic agenda behind the smokescreen of identity politics. They'll outsource your job while lecturing you about transgender bathrooms. Left and right, Carlson says, are no longer meaningful categories in America. "The rift is between those who benefit from the status quo, and those who don't." Our leaders are fools", Carlson concludes, "unaware that they are captains of a sinking ship." But in the signature and witty style that viewers of Tucker Carlson Tonight have come to enjoy, his book answers the all-important question: How do we put the country back on course?" - from the inner front jacket flap.

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• Title: Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Free Press , an imprint of Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New