# Wrath: America Enraged - Hardcover

by **Peter W. Wood** (Author)

Anger now dominates American politics. It wasn't always so. "Happy Days Are Here Again" was FDR's campaign song in 1932. By contrast, candidate Kamala Harris's 2020 campaign song was Mary J. Blige's "Work That" ("Let 'em get mad / They gonna hate anyway"). Both the left and right now summon anger as the main way to motivate their supporters. Post-election, both sides became even more indignant. The left accuses the right of "insurrection." The right accuses the left of fraud. This is a book about how we got here--about how America changed from a nation that could be roused to anger but preferred self-control, to a nation permanently dialed to eleven.

Peter W. Wood, an anthropologist, has rewritten his 2007 book, _A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America_, which predicted the new era of political wrath. In his new book, he explains how American culture beginning in the 1950s made a performance art out of anger; how and why we brought anger into our music, movies, and personal lives; and how, having step by step relinquished our old inhibitions on feeling and expressing anger, we turned anger into a way of wielding political power. But the "angri-culture," as he calls it, doesn't promise happy days again. It promises revenge. And a crisis that could destroy our republic.

### Author Biography

Peter W. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars. A former professor of anthropology and college provost, he is the author of _1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project_ (2020); and other books about American culture, including _Diversity: The Invention of a Concept_ (2003); _A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now_ (2007); _Diversity Rules_ (2020). He is editor-in-chief of the journal _Academic Questions_ and a widely published essayist. In 2019, he received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for contributions to academic freedom.

**Number of Pages:** 256

**Dimensions:** 1.02 x 9.06 x 5.98 IN

**Publication Date:** October 12, 2021

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