After the FallTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'A dystopian odyssey through the dark authoritarian landscape of the modern world The Times To be born American in the late twentieth century was to take the fact of a particular kind of American exceptionalism as granted a state of nature arrived at after all else had failed. In the span of just thirty years, this assumption would come crashing down. After the fall, we must determine what it means to be American