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Thank God for Ben Fountain. He reminds us of another American Ben F.: Franklin. Here is a quirky truth teller, a creative, who is attempting to steer America on a path that will bring some goodness to the most of us. Beautiful Country Burn Again is funny and fair, written with a novelist's skill of heart and with a researcher's expertise. -- Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning The force and beauty of Fountain's writing, his clear-eyed fury, his commitment to what is great about the American idea, make for exhilarating reading. A book for right now, and for all the fires next time. -- Alma Guillermoprieto, author of Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution What a masterpiece of a book, the true story of American possibility. It is so smart, so morally honest, that I hope every word will find its way into the coarsening minds and hearts of every American. -- David Finkel, author of Thank You for Your Service The author's masterful original phrasings make the book worthwhile, urgent, and timely. -- Kirkus Reviews Brilliantly argued...If this country can find writers like Ben Fountain to chronicle its most miserable hours, it can't be all bad. -- Los Angeles Review of Books Pithy and profound, Fountain's political observations fly off the page in a torrent of mantra-worthy quotes, while his historical analyses stun with their depth of research and relevance. -- Booklist (starred review) Whip-smart and searching in its indictment of cant and falsity, this is perhaps the best portrait yet of an astounding election. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Narrator Ron Butler puts forth a bronze-star-worthy effort in the face of this relentless barrage of facts and anecdotes...[which] in print it could be a depressing read and easily set aside. Enter our heroic narrator, Butler, who takes up the charge for us, attacking the text with real skill and precision. In the end, it might be hard to determine if you are shell-shocked by Fountain's writing or if it's Butler's mastery of it that has blown your mind. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile Force[s] a reader to think hard about the sudden disappearance of familiar patterns of politics and government. -- Washington Post A memorable and unique portrait of...an American moment which is likely to shape us for far longer than any of us would like to contemplate. -- Jon Meacham, #1 New York Times bestselling author Suggest[s] that from the ashes, a better nation can rise. Forget the eagle; maybe our true mascot is the phoenix. -- O, The Oprah Magazine

Thank God for Ben Fountain. He reminds us of another American Ben F.: Franklin. Here is a quirky truth teller, a creative, who is attempting to steer America on a path that will bring some goodness to the most of us. Beautiful Country Burn Again is funny and fair, written with a novelist's skill of heart and with a researcher's expertise. -- Tiphanie Yanique, author of Land of Love and Drowning The force and beauty of Fountain's writing, his clear-eyed fury, his commitment to what is great about the American idea, make for exhilarating reading. A book for right now, and for all the fires next time. -- Alma Guillermoprieto, author of Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution What a masterpiece of a book, the true story of American possibility. It is so smart, so morally honest, that I hope every word will find its way into the coarsening minds and hearts of every American. -- David Finkel, author of Thank You for Your Service The author's masterful original phrasings make the book worthwhile, urgent, and timely. -- Kirkus Reviews Brilliantly argued...If this country can find writers like Ben Fountain to chronicle its most miserable hours, it can't be all bad. -- Los Angeles Review of Books Pithy and profound, Fountain's political observations fly off the page in a torrent of mantra-worthy quotes, while his historical analyses stun with their depth of research and relevance. -- Booklist (starred review) Whip-smart and searching in its indictment of cant and falsity, this is perhaps the best portrait yet of an astounding election. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) Narrator Ron Butler puts forth a bronze-star-worthy effort in the face of this relentless barrage of facts and anecdotes...[which] in print it could be a depressing read and easily set aside. Enter our heroic narrator, Butler, who takes up the charge for us, attacking the text with real skill and precision. In the end, it might be hard to determine if you are shell-shocked by Fountain's writing or if it's Butler's mastery of it that has blown your mind. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile Force[s] a reader to think hard about the sudden disappearance of familiar patterns of politics and government. -- Washington Post Suggest[s] that from the ashes, a better nation can rise. Forget the eagle; maybe our true mascot is the phoenix. -- O, The Oprah Magazine A memorable and unique portrait of...an American moment which is likely to shape us for far longer than any of us would like to contemplate. -- Jon Meacham, #1 New York Times bestselling author

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Ben Fountain is the author of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Award, in addition to being made into a feature film directed by Ang Lee. Fountain's short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, was a national bestseller and winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Award for Fiction. Fountain graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University School of Law. A former practicing attorney, Fountain has taught at the University of Texas at Austin, and recently completed a two-year appointment as university chair in creative writing at Texas State University Ron Butler is a Los Angeles-based actor, Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.

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