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Liar’s Circus: A Strange and Terrifying Journey Into the Upside-Down World of Trump’s MAGA Rallies
Bottom of the pile
23
/100
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Readers
35/100Critics
10/100Scholars
Author:
Carl Hoffman
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
September 1, 2020
A former contributing editor at National Geographic Traveler journeys into the dark belly of President Trump's cult-like rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president's base.
What The Reviewers Say
... quite revealing. First, it captures the frenetic atmosphere of the rallies.
Hoffman, who never hides his journalism credentials, is an affable skeptic who finds most rally-goers welcoming and eager to convince him that Trump is 'heaven-sent.' He puts into context quotes from MAGA-goers and Trump himself with observations from sociologists and historians.
Hoffman often shakes his head in wonderment but rarely condescends, and he approaches his subject with scholarly vigor, sometimes quoting from heady philosophical and sociological sources while retaining a sense of fraught adventure.
... [a] vivid yet somewhat shallow sociological study.
