Amy Chua is the John M. Duff, Jr. Professor at Yale Law School. She is a noted expert in the fields of ethnic conflict and globalization, and the author of the bestselling titles World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, Day of Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance -- and Why They Fall, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, and her most recent book, The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America, co-written with Jed Rubenfeld. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her husband and two daughters.
"An important book ...[I] strongly agree with Chua's argument that
America's liberal elite has contributed to Trump's rise by failing
to acknowledge its own sense of tribalism." -- Financial Times
"True to form, Amy Chua presents a provocative prescription to cure
our political ills. She challenges us to cross the chasm between
groups--not by denying differences, but by celebrating them."
--Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take,
Originals, and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg "Presented with keen
clarity and brimming with definitive insights, Chua's analysis of
identity politics is essential reading for understanding policy
challenges both at home and abroad." -- Booklist "Amy Chua's
insightful, provocative and deeply troubling book is the place to
begin our long overdue national discussion on how to repair the
deep divisions in the American political landscape. Political
Tribes is a wakeup call to the dangers of surrendering national
unity to a fractured landscape of feuding and narrow
interests."
--Tom Brokaw, author of The Greatest Generation
"Brilliant, timeless and timely. Political Tribes concisely
explains the forces that made our experiences in Vietnam,
Afghanistan, and Iraq so maddeningly difficult to comprehend, and
brings that same thoughtful analysis to America today. Amy Chua
provokes thought - and we need that."
--General Stan McChrystal, US Army (Ret) "Political Tribes is a
beautifully written, eminently readable, and uniquely important
challenge to conventional wisdom. In it, Amy Chua argues that
tribalism--and the social dysfunction and violence that comes along
with it--is the norm all over the world, but the United States
managed to escape its worst impulses thanks to a shared sense of
national identity. But there's trouble on the horizon: identity
politics on both the left and right threaten to unravel that
consensus. Chua's book is a clarion call, encouraging us to reject
the primal pull of identitarianism and return to that most radical
of ideas, that Americans share something bigger than race or
ethnicity or ideology: common citizenship and purpose."--J. D.
Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy "Another wonderful book by Amy
Chua! In Political Tribes, she demonstrates once again that she
ranks with the keenest observers of the contemporary landscape,
establishing convincingly that "Humans are tribal," and that this
reality holds significant implications for America if we truly are
to achieve a 'more perfect union.'" --General David Petraeus, US
Army (Ret), former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and
Afghanistan and former Director of the CIA "Amy Chua speaks hard
truths that no one can ignore. We are, as Chua makes clear, living
in denial about the power of tribalism over our domestic and
foreign policy -- blinded, it seems, by our own optimism and
distaste for essentialism. A page turner and revelation, Political
Tribes will change the way you think."
--Tim Wu, author of The Attention Merchants and The Master
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