Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 — How Division Became Structural
What if America’s political division is less a recent rupture than the result of pressures accumulating across interconnected systems for decades?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974 by Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer as our lens, this investigation traces how modern American polarization developed through interacting political, economic, racial, cultural, and media transformations.
The authors begin with the crises of the 1970s, when Vietnam and Watergate weakened confidence in…
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