On the face of it, most of us would agree that catastrophe is harmful and avoiding it is key to human survival and progress.
And yet, the planet warms, 30,000 more Americans are killed by guns each year, and Donald J.
Trump creates political chaos with his rage tweets.
American Catastrophe explores such examples to argue that, in fact, we live in an age where catastrophe not only functions as a dominant organizing rhetoric but further as an appealing and unifying force for many communitie.
Ohio State University Press American catastrophe: fundamentalism, climate change, gun rights, and the rhetoric of donald j. trump, hardcover/luke winslow
