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50/100Critics
67/100Scholars
90/100Author:
Jeff Sharlet
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
March 21, 2023
An attempt to understand how, over the last decade, reaction has morphed into delusion, social division into distrust, distrust into paranoia, and hatred into fantasies--sometimes realities--of violence.
What The Reviewers Say
A yearslong, one-man anthropological expedition into the heartland of the far right.
A travelogue that tarries with furious people in forgotten places, all of them convinced that civil war of some sort is in the offing.
The Undertow feels at once urgently important and inconclusive. Perhaps we’ve realized, at long last, that sermons and parables, from Edwards to Trump, won’t save us. In fact, they just might be the death of us.
This is a grim but necessary examination of democracy’s potential assassins, leavened by Sharlet’s incredible storytelling and acute observations..
