Ranging from the vision of the Founding Fathers to the myth-making machine of Hollywood, the book investigates the persistent dream in which America is determined to live, and the dangerous ’sleep of reason’ necessary to sustain it. America’s cultural delusions are a grotesque imbalance between fantasy and reality, a danger to us all as, propelled by power, mythology and paranoia, the US pursues its dream of empire. As recent events in Iraq and elsewhere have shown, it is a dream whose dark side is death, suffering, perpetual fear, an increasing divide between rich and poor, a squandering of the human future, and the relentless building of more and more pretexts for future wars.

According to The Independent

This work, by a pair of British authors, does just that, with a forensic detachment that’s far too cool and curious to deserve an “anti-American” tag. Sardar and Wyn Davies (collaborators to the bestselling Why Do People Hate America?) reveal and dissect the fundamental beliefs that fuel Republicans and Democrats, liberals and neocons, alike. They take their framework from Hollywood, viewed as the central factory of American myths for worldwide export. Chapters enlist the plots and themes of movies - from The Player to Groundhog Day - to explore the meanings and effects of American dreams and (as the authors claim) delusions.

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