Dr Corey Dolgon is Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Based Learning at Stonehill College, Easton, MA, USA. He is past president of the Association for Humanist Sociology and has taught at Harvard and Clark Universities. Corey is the author of three other books including the award winning The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise. He has published many articles for anthologies, journals and magazines, and is the new co-editor for Critical Sociology

Introduction: In My Life;

Part One: The Strange Life of Kill it to Save it: Origins, Theories and Myths;

Part Overview: Why an Autopsy? The Politics of History;

The Vietnamization of American;

Mourning Again in America;

Part Two: Learning American Style: The Life and Death of American Education;

Part Overview: History of Learning American Style;

How the Knowledge Economy Killed Knowledge, and Other Scary Stories Out of School;

The University Burns While the Knowledge Factory Hums;

Part Three: Junk Food, Junk Science, and Junk Freedom: Life and Death in America;

Part Overview: History of Health in America;

Industrialized Food and Industrialized Farmers;

Junk Food, Junk Science and a Bad Case of Mad Truth Disease;

Junk Freedom, Broken Windows, and Black Lives Matter;

Part Four: The Life and Death of America’s Economy and Government;

Part Overview: It’s the Political Economy Stupid;

Beyond Voodoo Economics: The Myth of Marco Rubio;

Shock Doctrines, Disaster Capitalism, and Smart ALECs;

The Myth of Common Sense Austerity and the Slow Death of America's Economy;

Epilogue: Innocents Abroad; Trouble at Home: Kill it to Save it Goes Global.

Postscript.