PositiveLos Angeles Review of Books\"With its digressions into American history, culture, biography, and political theory, and with its tonal shifts from blazing moral argument to understated, hilarious observation, the book defies categorization as mere journalism ... [Fountain\'s] writing delights in its own seamless passages between high and low and sweeps us up in its pleasure as it does so ... In the latter part of the book, there are some sections in which Fountain’s commitment to surprise and play seems to have been overwhelmed by the seriousness of the predicament he describes ... That said, there’s no one I would rather read on Where We Are Now. I learn from Fountain’s vast and coherent research even as I take pride in the amazing liberties he takes with his form.\
