From the reverence we reserve for our Founding Fathers to the estimable praise we lavish on the World War II generation (The Greatest American Generation), Disappearing Acts critically examines most of what is accepted as conventional wisdom in America and offers an alternate perspective. The book, in part, is an attempt to get America past the brain-dead sloganeering that currently defines our public discourse ('they hate us for our freedom') and seeks a higher level of fact-based (intellectual) cultural analysis.
Considering where we, as Americans, are at this place in our history and the direction we are likely headed absent a sobering cultural analysis, this is one of the most important books written in quite some time.