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Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
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From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too.As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends—until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was "on the wrong side of history," Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected.In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on "The Toxic Trends of Whiteness," following the social justice activists who run "Abolitionist Entertainment LLC," and trying to please the New York Times's "disinformation czar," she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life.Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America's sharpest journalists.
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"In its depiction of dogmas gone awry, slavish conformism and malign thought-policing, Morning After the Revolution shows rather than tells the answer."
"Struck by how comical the hyper-'woke' sound when they're in full flight, most of the time she doesn't need to add anything herself; her mode, which is very effective, is death by quotation."
"She is not a liar or a peddler of outright misinformation, but she is fatally incurious about her ideological adversaries and their motivations."
"A slim collection of polemical reportage that I suspect is meant to be courageous stuff, also funny ..."
"Predictably, the book reaches a whole new level of viciousness when it reveals Bowles' attitude toward trans people."
"It's a truism that humor dwells in specificity, and this principle works against Bowles's efforts at bitingly observed social commentary."
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