How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps

Ben Shapiro

Jul 2020 · HarperAudio · Narrated by Ben Shapiro

About this audiobook

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it’s taken us 250 years to build—and they’ll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture.

Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can’t agree on what makes America special. We can’t even agree that America is special. We’re coming to the point that we can’t even agree what the word America itself means. “Disintegrationists” say we’re stronger together, but their assault on America’s history, philosophy, and culture will only tear us apart.

Who are the disintegrationists? From Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to the New York Times’ 1619 project, many modern analyses view American history through the lens of competing oppressions, a racist and corrupt experiment from the very beginning. They see American philosophy as a lie – beautiful words pasted over a thoroughly rotted system. They see America’s culture of rights as a façade that merely reinforces traditional hierarchies of power, instead of being the only culture that guarantees freedom for individuals.

Disintegrationist attacks on the values that built our nation are insidious because they replace each foundational belief, from the rights to free speech and self-defense to the importance of marriage and faith communities, with nothing more than an increased reliance on the government. 

This twisted disintegrationist vision replaces the traditional “unionist” understanding that all Americans are united in a shared striving toward the perfection of universal ideals.

How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps shows that to be a cohesive nation we have to uphold foundational truths about ourselves, our history, and reality itself—to be unionists instead of disintegrationists. Shapiro offers a vital warning that if we don’t recover these shared truths, our future—our union—as a great country is threatened with destruction.

Ratings and reviews

This is a man who is afraid of the truth. Why do you make up names for people who seek what is reality instead of the sanitized version we were all spoon fed in school? This book tries to shut the door on facts and foundational truths that have come to light. The problem is in this age of the web you can't hide truth. Of course there will always be those who shut their eyes...

Very fitting for the times we are currently going through socially. Offers a more nuanced view of politics today. First time ever purchasing a book/audiobook and now I'm interested in purchasing Ben's other books and whatever he offers in the future. My main criticism is that I think the chapters should be a little more organized in the topics discussed within. Some things should just be thrown in one chapter than to spread it out accross the book. Needs a little more focus.

Ben Shapiro is a breed of conservative who believes that the best way to forge a better future is to ignore the past. For the Shapiros of this country the US is, by virtue and not by struggle, a perfect union rather than "a more perfect union" towards which the Declaration of Independence admonishes us to strive.

About the author

Ben Shapiro is founding editor-in-chief and editor emeritus of The Daily Wire and host of ""The Ben Shapiro Show,"" the top conservative podcast in the nation. A New York Times bestselling author, Shapiro is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and an Orthodox Jew. His work has been profiled in nearly every major American publication, and he has appeared as the featured speaker at many conservative events on campuses nationwide, several of those appearances targeted by progressive and “Antifa” activists.