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Taibbi, Matt

Taibbi, Matt

Eva H. Perry Regional
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Adult Non-Fiction

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"Dispatches from the 2016 election that provide an eerily prescient take on our democracy's uncertain future, by the country's most perceptive and fearless political journalist. The 2016 presidential contest as told by Matt Taibbi, from its tragicomic beginnings to its apocalyptic conclusion, is in fact the story of Western civilization's very own train wreck. Years before the clown car of candidates was fully loaded, Taibbi grasped the essential themes of the story: the power of spectacle over substance, or even truth; the absence of a shared reality; the nihilistic rebellion of the white working class; the death of the political establishment; and the emergence of a new, explicit form of white nationalism that would destroy what was left of the Kingian dream of a successful pluralistic society. Taibbi captures, with dead-on, real-time analysis, the failures of the right and the left, from the thwarted Bernie Sanders insurgency to the flawed and aimless Hillary Clinton campaign; the rise of the "dangerously bright" alt-right with its wall-loving identity politics and its rapturous view of the "Racial Holy War" to come; and the giant fail of a flailing, reactive political media that fed a ravenous news cycle not with reporting on political ideology, but with undigested propaganda served straight from the campaign bubble. At the center of it all stands Donald J. Trump, leading a historic revolt against his own party, "bloviating and farting his way" through the campaign, "saying outrageous things, acting like Hitler one minute and Andrew Dice Clay the next." For Taibbi, the stunning rise of Trump marks the apotheosis of the new postfactual movement. Taibbi frames the reporting with original essays that explore the seismic shift in how we perceive our national institutions, the democratic process, and the future of the country. Insane Clown President is not just a postmortem on the collapse and failure of American democracy. It offers the riveting, surreal, unique, and essential experience of seeing the future in hindsight"--

Book

Books

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9780399592461

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

324.973 TAIBB

Wake County Public Libraries

Eva H. Perry Regional
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional
Southgate Community
Wake Forest Community
West Regional

9780399592461

2017

Spiegel & Grau

grouped_work

Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
Trump, Donald, -- 1946-

Insane clown president : dispatches from the 2016 circus

Insane clown president : dispatches from the 2016 circus / Matt Taibbi ; illustrations by Victor Juhasz

Insane clown president

dispatches from the 2016 circus

Election
Presidents
Trump, Donald