Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Introduction: A New People, an Old Nation: America in the Twenty-First Century 1
5. Part I American Revolutions of the Twentieth Century
6. 1. Midcentury Normal 23
7. 2. Black Americans, Model Minority 49
8. 3. How Sex Got Serious 84
9. 4. Half a Counterrevolution 117
10. Part II Sleepwalking into Revenge
11. 5. Americans as Enemies: The 1990s as Historical Pivot 157
12. 6. Sleepwalking (1): Immigration 183
13. 7. Sleepwalking (2): Race 201
14. 8. How America Stopped Working for Working-Class Americans 232
15. 9. Trumpism as Total Revenge 254
16. 10. A New, Old America: Counterrevolution through the Courts 291
17. 11. The American Contradiction, 2024 332
18. Notes 361
19. Acknowledgments 419
20. Index 421