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A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire
Spiegel & Grau
May 2008
On Sale: May 6, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 0385520344
EAN: 9780385520348
Hardcover
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A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC ADVENTURE THROUGH A NATION ON
THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM THE HALLS OF CONGRESS
TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THE
HEARTLAND
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature
of George Bush’s America in the post-9/11 era and ended up
vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding
the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere,
searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling
into the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
Matt discovered in his travels across the country that the
resilient blue state/red state narrative of American
politics had become irrelevant. A large and growing chunk of
the American population was so turned off—or radicalized—by
electoral chicanery, a spineless news media, and the
increasingly blatant lies from our leaders (“they hate us
for our freedom”) that they abandoned the political
mainstream altogether. They joined what he calls The Great
Derangement.
Taibbi tells the story of this new American madness by
inserting himself into four defining American subcultures:
The Military, where he finds himself mired in the grotesque
black comedy of the American occupation of Iraq; The System,
where he follows the money-slicked path of legislation in
Congress; The Resistance, where he doubles as chief public
antagonist and undercover member of the passionately bonkers
9/11 Truth Movement; and The Church, where he infiltrates a
politically influential apocalyptic mega-ministry in Texas
and enters the lives of its desperate congregants. Together
these four interwoven adventures paint a portrait of a
nation dangerously out of touch with reality and desperately
searching for answers in all the wrong places.
Funny, smart, and a little bit heartbreaking, The Great
Derangement is an audaciously reported, sobering, and
illuminating portrait of America at the end of the Bush era
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