Author Talks About America’s Fractured Identity and How to Fix It

Mon 1/25 @ 7PM

Author/journalist Bob Garfield is co-host of NPR’s weekly On the Media program and had been an observer/commentator on the media for decades for a wide range of publication.

About a year ago, his book American Manifesto: Saving Democracy from Villains, Vandals and Ourselves was published, described as “a guidebook to reassembling our hyperpolarized American society in six (not-so-easy) steps.”

Good luck with that! Anyway, in it he takes on how mass media has disintegrated, leaving social media to isolate people in “tribes” where they exchange information (or “information”) and ideas almost entirely for people who believe as they do, saying that Trumpism was an expected result of this process. He claims to have a formula to bring us together and put our fractured society back together, but the “not-so-easy” part is probably a warning, especially since this book came out a year prior to a mob of seditionist insurrectionists invading our Capitol.

Find out if his mind has change when he does an online author talk for the Hudson Library & Historical Society. Copies of the book will be available for purchase through the Learned Own Book Shop.

Registration is required for this free program. Go here.

Hudson Library

96 Library Street, Hudson, OH 44236

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