Republic of Lies
American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power
(Sprache: Englisch)
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'Timely and troubling' Evening Standard
'A necessary book' David Aaronovitch
'Frequently jaw-dropping' Huffington Post
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'Timely and troubling' Evening Standard
'A necessary book' David Aaronovitch
'Frequently jaw-dropping' Huffington Post
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_______'Timely and troubling' Evening Standard
'A necessary book' David Aaronovitch
'Frequently jaw-dropping' Huffington Post
From UFOs to the New World Order, the inside story of how conspiracy theories won over America.
In November 2017, a serial climate change denier and anti-vaxxer was elected President of the United States. The rise of Donald Trump marked the beginning of a new American epoch: the age of the conspiracy theorist.
Now, Anna Merlan goes undercover in America's sprawling network of conspiracy theorists and uncovers their secrets. She meets the UFOlogist who claims to have travelled to Mars with a young Barack Obama. She chats with the 'pizzagate' truthers who think Washington D.C.'s favourite pizzeria is run by a satanic paedophile ring. And she bumps into Alex Jones, the YouTube impresario who thinks the state is using chemical warfare to turn the population gay - and who happens to be on first-name terms with the leader of the free world.
Merlan reveals a world of innuendo and propaganda lying just beneath the surface of US culture. It might just help explain the political turmoil of our time.
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'Through exhaustive research, personal interviews, and a critical yet at times appropriately empathetic approach, writer Anna Merlan has written a captivating book that illuminates the landscape of conspiracy theories.' New York Magazine
'An entertaining taxonomy of toxic ideas' Herald
'A rock-steady narrator with a ready command of history, nerves of steel, and incisive social insights . . . We need a thousand of her, or a million.' The Nation
Autoren-Porträt von Anna Merlan
Anna Merlan is a journalist specialising in politics, crime, religion, subcultures, and women's lives. She is a reporter at the Special Projects Desk, the investigative division of Gizmodo Media Group. She was previously a senior reporter at Jezebel and staff writer at the Village Voice and the Dallas Observer. She lives in New York.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Anna Merlan
- 2020, 288 Seiten, Maße: 13,1 x 20 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: ARROW
- ISBN-10: 1787460207
- ISBN-13: 9781787460201
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.05.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Anna Merlan reveals that the conspiracy theorists we all once felt a little sorry for (if annoyed by) have become the masters of the universe, lodged in the White House and presidential palaces throughout the world. It's a rich insight that makes this something more than a good book - it makes it a necessary book. David Aaronovitch, author of VOODOO HISTORIES
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