Book Description
Wake Up America is a candid and research-driven examination of the misinformation, manipulation, and distorted values that define contemporary American culture. Drawing on decades of experience in finance, investing, and corporate oversight, Mark Chrisler challenges readers to look beyond advertising slogans, political talking points, and socially accepted myths.
The book explores how misleading corporate advertising, political dishonesty, unchecked consumerism, climate change denial, and rigid belief systems have contributed to confusion, division, and declining well-being. From deceptive television ads and unnecessary consumer products to fear-based investment pitches and pharmaceutical marketing, the book exposes how persuasion often replaces truth.
Politics and religion are addressed directly and unapologetically. Chrisler argues that democracy cannot function when voters accept lies out of tribal loyalty, and that blind faith, whether political or religious, often serves as an escape from personal responsibility. Rather than promoting ideology, the book calls for honesty, accountability, and critical thinking across the spectrum.
Structured around five concise chapters, The Simple Life, Misleading Corporate Advertisements, Our Climate, Politics, and Religion, Wake Up America blends humor, uncomfortable observations, and well-researched examples. It is not a call to anger. It is a call to awareness.
At its core, the book has a simple goal. It is to help readers think more clearly in a world designed to confuse them. It encourages people to question what they are told, simplify their lives, resist fear-based messaging, and make decisions rooted in evidence rather than manipulation.
Written in a plainspoken, occasionally cranky, but always sincere tone, Wake Up America is for readers who sense that something is wrong and are ready to look honestly at why.