Political Tribes - Amy Chua

'A beautifully written eminently readable and uniquely important challenge to conventional wisdom' J. D. Vance author of Hillbilly Elegy Never has our society felt more divided. In Political Tribes Amy Chua diagnoses the cause of our current political discord: tribalism. In many parts of the world the group identities that matter most - the ones that people will kill and die for - are ethnic religious sectarian or clan-based. Time and time again our blindness to tribalism has undermined our foreign policy. At home we have recently witnessed the rise of identity politics a movement that encourages us to define ourselves against and thereby exclude others. The shock results of the US election and the Brexit referendum show that tribalism is a social truth that we ignore at our peril. When people are defined by their differences to each other extremism becomes the common ground and the grand ideals of democracy have a hard time competing with a more primal need to belong. If we are to transcend our political tribes we must rediscover a broader more nuanced unity that acknowledges the reality of our group differences. Insightful challenging and provocative Amy Chua's groundbreaking book could not be more timely.

TITLE: Political Tribes

AUTHOR: Amy Chua

SKU: 9781408881545

PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

DATE PUBLISHED: 22/02/2018

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 304

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 153 mm x 234 mm

WEIGHT: 464 gr