"Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer’s Fault Lines is a brilliant primer for understanding the troubling precedents for today’s mass American political dysfunction. Both historians are deeply informed and surefooted thinkers. A must-read foundational work for our time!"
- Douglas Brinkley, history commentator for CNN,
"[With] deep detail and taut-as-a-thriller pacing…the authors detail how the Democratic and—especially—Republican parties moved the country from post-New Deal liberalism to an increasingly hard-right philosophy, culminating with Trump…If Fault Lines doesn’t provide easy answers to our current dilemma, its cleareyed, pin-sharp overview is a necessary map of how we got here."
- Michaelangelo Matos - Rolling Stone,
"Kruse and Zelizer do an admirable job of creating a narrative out of the chaotic events of the recent past."
- L. Benjamin Rolsky - Los Angeles Review of Books,