How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama—and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction. The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values or interests. American Contradiction tells the story of how 1950s America became the almost unrecognizable America of the 2020s. Learn more at yalebooks.com!