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The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore

Audiobook
Nonfiction: History, Politics, and Current Events
Unabridged   10.25 hour(s)
Publication date: 08/25/2017

The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore

A Story of American Rage

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Audio CD ISBN:9781681688473
Digital Download ISBN:9781681688480

Summary

Like the works of Hunter S. Thompson and Norman Mailer—books that have paved the way for important narratives that shape how we perceive not only the politics of our time but also our way of life—The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is an instant, essential classic, an authoritative depiction of a country struggling to make sense of itself.

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Product Description

On June 14, 2016, Jared Yates Sexton reported from a Donald Trump rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. One of the first journalists to attend these rallies and give mainstream readers an idea of the raw anger that occurred there, Sexton found himself in the center of a maelstrom. Following a series of tweets that saw his observations viewed well over a million times, his reporting was soon featured in the Washington Post, NPR, Bloomberg, and Mother Jones, and he would go on to write two pieces for the New York Times. Sexton gained over eighteen thousand followers on Twitter in a matter of days, and received online harassment, campaigns to get him fired from his university professorship, and death threats that changed his life forever.

The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore is a firsthand account of the events that shaped the 2016 Presidential Election and the cultural forces that powered Donald Trump into the White House. Featuring in-the-field reports as well as deep analysis, Sexton's book is not just the story of the most unexpected and divisive election in modern political history. It is also a sobering chronicle of our democracy's political polarization—a result of our self-constructed, technologically-assisted echo chambers.

Reviews/Praise

"A leftist counterweight to Hillbilly Elegy, laced with shots of Hunter S. Thompson . . . A useful snapshot of a tumultuous presidential race." —Kirkus

"Sexton's reporting provides a unique nuts-and-bolts look at the campaigns, and his eyewitness reports of the aggressive displays at Trump rallies are both terrifying and fascinating." —Publishers Weekly

"Essential reading for understanding this country now and going forward." —Alexander Chee, author of The Queen of the Night

"Thoughtful, compassionate, and exceptionally brave, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how--and why--our country turned on itself." —Bronwen Dickey, author of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon

Author Bio

Jared Yates Sexton is a writer whose political writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, Salon, and elsewhere. He is the author of three collections of fiction and a crime-novel. Currently he serves as an associate professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University.