RaveThe Guardian\"[Fountain\'s] eye for the absurd and ability to draw attention to the sheer strangeness of America made him a perfect observer of 2016: when politics met reality TV ... Two years on, in the whirling chaos of the Trumpian news cycle, [Fountain\'s] election-year commentaries could have seemed faded, almost quaint mementos. But in book form, expanded, they live up to his own description: they are both a diagnosis of America’s symptoms of stress and a record of developing crisis ... Funny and also horrifying, Fountain has spectacular historical reach.\
