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Eric Cheyfitz is one of the smartest, wisest, and toughest cultural critics writing today - a teller of difficult but essential truths. The Disinformation Age should become a fundamental text for a new era of resistance. - Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History The Disinformation Age should be read by everyone concerned with the obscurantism that has taken hold of US politics. Cheyfitz argues convincingly that promises of the American Dream or claims to US exceptionalism have gone beyond mere ideological rhetoric to 'disinformation' which has no relationship to reality-akin to Orwell's 'doublespeak' or more bluntly, a 'confidence game.' The study derives its power from the author's rereading of seminal historical texts that reveal 'disinformation' as an abiding feature of US capitalism that has reached its culmination over the last few decades. If it is to be overcome, we will need to step outside the system to search for alternatives among which indigenous visions provide the most promising. An engaged and engaging study. - Arif Dirlik, independent scholar, Eugene, OR, USA

Eric Cheyfitz is one of the smartest, wisest, and toughest cultural critics writing today - a teller of difficult but essential truths. The Disinformation Age should become a fundamental text for a new era of resistance. - Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History The Disinformation Age should be read by everyone concerned with the obscurantism that has taken hold of US politics. Cheyfitz argues convincingly that promises of the American Dream or claims to US exceptionalism have gone beyond mere ideological rhetoric to 'disinformation' which has no relationship to reality-akin to Orwell's 'doublespeak' or more bluntly, a 'confidence game.' The study derives its power from the author's rereading of seminal historical texts that reveal 'disinformation' as an abiding feature of US capitalism that has reached its culmination over the last few decades. If it is to be overcome, we will need to step outside the system to search for alternatives among which indigenous visions provide the most promising. An engaged and engaging study. - Arif Dirlik, independent scholar, Eugene, OR, USA The Disinformation Age contains the brilliance, insight and originality we've come to expect from Eric Cheyfitz. This historical analysis also sheds light on the difficulties of the present moment as well. However, Cheyfitz isn't satisfied with describing and theorizing the path of the crisis of US Capitalism and the failure of the language of American exceptionalism - he also proposes alternatives to be found in the theory and praxis of Indigenous Peoples. This is an urgent and necessary text. - Farah Jasmine Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor, English & Comparative Literature and African American Studies, Columbia University Eric Cheyfitz argues in this wonderful and provocative book that the fact that untruths and lies increasingly pervade U.S. political and public discourse is not due primarily to the dishonesty of any single politician or party. Disinformation, instead, results from the contemporary historical condition, in which the rhetoric of U.S. exceptionalism, although still constantly evoked, has been emptied of all its contents. By posing the problem at such a general level, Cheyfitz forces us to recognize the need for radical social transformation. - Michael Hardt, co-author of Assembly

Eric Cheyfitz is one of the smartest, wisest, and toughest cultural critics writing today - a teller of difficult but essential truths. The Disinformation Age should become a fundamental text for a new era of resistance. - Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History The Disinformation Age should be read by everyone concerned with the obscurantism that has taken hold of US politics. Cheyfitz argues convincingly that promises of the American Dream or claims to US exceptionalism have gone beyond mere ideological rhetoric to 'disinformation' which has no relationship to reality-akin to Orwell's 'doublespeak' or more bluntly, a 'confidence game.' The study derives its power from the author's rereading of seminal historical texts that reveal 'disinformation' as an abiding feature of US capitalism that has reached its culmination over the last few decades. If it is to be overcome, we will need to step outside the system to search for alternatives among which indigenous visions provide the most promising. An engaged and engaging study. - Arif Dirlik, independent scholar, Eugene, OR, USA The Disinformation Age contains the brilliance, insight and originality we've come to expect from Eric Cheyfitz. This historical analysis also sheds light on the difficulties of the present moment as well. However, Cheyfitz isn't satisfied with describing and theorizing the path of the crisis of US Capitalism and the failure of the language of American exceptionalism - he also proposes alternatives to be found in the theory and praxis of Indigenous Peoples. This is an urgent and necessary text. - Farah Jasmine Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor, English & Comparative Literature and African American Studies, Columbia University Eric Cheyfitz argues in this wonderful and provocative book that the fact that untruths and lies increasingly pervade U.S. political and public discourse is not due primarily to the dishonesty of any single politician or party. Disinformation, instead, results from the contemporary historical condition, in which the rhetoric of U.S. exceptionalism, although still constantly evoked, has been emptied of all its contents. By posing the problem at such a general level, Cheyfitz forces us to recognize the need for radical social transformation. - Michael Hardt, co-author of Assembly

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Eric Cheyfitz is the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University.

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