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Book Three of the four-volume The Death of the American Dream covers 2008 to 2020. It's on preorder now as an EPUB ebook and releases Sat., Oct. 31.
Book Three is where the series' long threads start to tie together. The Convergence runs 44 chapters in two Parts:
The Backlash and the Money (2008–2015)
Accelerant and Fuel (2016–2020)
It opens with reverse redlining and the foreclosure crisis. It closes with George Floyd, the 2020 uprising and the retreat from accountability that followed.
What's inside
The money. Citizens United v. FEC, the Tea Party and REDMAP, fossil-fuel money and nationalist media, and labor law from Act 10 to Janus.
The backlash. The "birther" conspiracy and Arizona SB 1070; building the Christian-nationalist infrastructure; the anti-Sharia bills; and the Voting Rights Act gutted from Shelby County to Rucho.
The collapse of local news. It starts the day The Denver Post's own editorial board turned on its owner.
2016. Merrick Garland, Standing Rock and the knee; the troll farms; the Trump orbit, Mueller and Butina; and Charlottesville.
Accelerant and Fuel. The book weighs foreign influence operations against the fuel already laid at home.
The Court built to order. The Federalist Society, dark money and the Supreme Court, 1982–2020.
The Rapture Vote. Dispensationalism from Scofield to Hagee.
How it's built
Like every volume, The Convergence labels what is documented intent, what is documented effect and what is genuinely disputed. These are the years when the public argument is loudest and the record is misquoted most often. The chapters on foreign influence say plainly what the record shows and where it runs out.
Who it's for
The Convergence is for readers who lived through these years in headlines and want them in one connected record, with sources they can check. It's also the bridge to Book Four, where every thread arrives at once.
Get The Convergence: $12.99 EPUB ebook at floridamannewsnetwork.com/books. All four volumes are $29.99 as a set on preorder through Oct. 30, then $32.99.
Disclosure: FMNN's founder wrote this four-volume series, which FMNN publishes and sells.