VAN JOHNSON'S TAKE ON THE MESSY AMERICAN TRUTHS

Van Jones, Beyond the Messy Truth: How We Came Apart; How We Come Together (New York: Ballantine Books, 2017) (So the messy truth is this: A Rebellion was justified. But the wrong rebel won. The Trump presidency has polarized the discourse, jeopardized our standing on the world stage, and inflamed hostility along racial, gender, and religious lines. Almost a year after Trump's election, individuals at both ends of the political spectrum are growing uneasy with his tweeting, tantrums, and temperament. But many Americans are asking the same questions we started to raise on election night: How could someone like Trump get elected to the highest office in the land? What are we supposed to learn from all of this and how can we get our country to a better place? What can we do now to defend decency and democracy? An after 2016, can anything unite America? In these pages,  I offer insights and propose solutions that I hope will point a way forward." Id. at xiv.).