{"product_id":"confidence-men","title":"Landon Frim: Confidence Men [2026]","description":"Why do millions of Americans support a system that is making them poorer, sicker, and less\u003cbr\u003esecure every day? If modern capitalism routinely exploits working people, then why do so many\u003cbr\u003eflock to its most reactionary defenders in personalities like Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk, and\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Tate? Or, as the philosopher Baruch Spinoza asked, why do we fight for slavery as if it\u003cbr\u003ewere our salvation? Confidence Men: The Duping of the American Mind provides a compelling\u003cbr\u003eanswer to those questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMere journalistic accounts of these hucksters have pointed out their many lies and inaccuracies,\u003cbr\u003etheir personal failings and rank hypocrisy. Confidence Men does something different. Instead of\u003cbr\u003etreating these sensational figures as individual bad actors, it identifies a common philosophy\u003cbr\u003ethat animates them all. Each of them are, in their own ways, irrationalists - believing in the\u003cbr\u003epower of a strong will to overcome ordinary reality (and ordinary people). Objective facts,\u003cbr\u003enature, and even \"human nature\" melt away before the creative genius or the mystical hero.\u003cbr\u003eToday's \"confidence men\" are the cheerleaders of hierarchy and domination, where the\u003cbr\u003esupreme value is one of unhinged belief in oneself. As against reactionary forms of self-help,\u003cbr\u003eConfidence Men proposes a rationalist alternative - neither wishing our problems away, nor\u003cbr\u003e\"manifesting\" success - but instead, understanding the world so that we can change it for the\u003cbr\u003ebetter.","brand":"Frim, Landon","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53173886288211,"sku":"9781914420665","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/frim-landon-confidence-men-9781914420665-1226409991.jpg?v=1772928849","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/confidence-men","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}