Will Bunch

Backlash, The

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Produktbeschreibung

They think Obama Isn't an American citizen. They think Obama wants to put Americans in Concentration Camps. They think Obama is the Anti-Christ. This isn't just the Tea Party?Welcome to the Backlash. The election of Barack Obama provoked unparalleled anger on the far right that eventually twisted important national discussions and pushed ideas from the conservative fringe into the mainstream media. In this gripping exposé, Pulitzer Prize?winning reporter Will Bunch reveals the secrets behind the crusade against the president, exploring how forces like radical militia groups, the Tea Party, pro-gun zealots, and Glenn Beck have combined old-fashioned populist outrage with digital-age phobias to produce a wave of resentment that many have ridden straight to the bank. Pulling back the curtain on the paranoid politics of a new generation, Bunch exposes the opportunists who have embraced apocalyptic fearmongering, and shows how events such as the election of America's first African-American president, the economic recession, and the rise of social networking have created a dangerous political moment that poses legitimate risks to democracy in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harper Paperbacks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 483g
• ISBN-13: 9780061991721
• ISBN-10: 0061991724
• Artikelnr.: 33154129

Autorenporträt

Will Bunch is national opinion columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and author of several books, including Tear Down This Myth: The Right-Wing Distortion of the Reagan Legacy, The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, Paranoia Politics and High-Def Hucksters in the Age of Obama, and the e-book The Bern Identity: A Search for Bernie Sanders and the New American Dream. He has won numerous journalism awards and shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting with the New York Newsday staff.