From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent Tom Wolfe-esque romp through the sacred spaces of progressivism
As a card-carrying lesbian, Hillary voter, and New York Times reporter, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends – until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved actually helped people. Gently informed that asking these questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she’d expected.
In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of meeting the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment, LLC” and coming to figurative blows with the New York Times' “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of wealthy progressives.
Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.
As a card-carrying lesbian, Hillary voter, and New York Times reporter, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends – until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved actually helped people. Gently informed that asking these questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she’d expected.
In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives readers a front-row seat to the drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of meeting the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment, LLC” and coming to figurative blows with the New York Times' “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of wealthy progressives.
Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780593420140
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Thesis
Publication Date: 05-14-2024
Pages: 304
Product Dimensions: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
About the Author
Nellie Bowles is a writer living in Los Angeles. Previously, she was a correspondent at the New York Times where, as part of a team, she won the Gerald Loeb Award in Investigations and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award. Now she is working with her wife to build The Free Press, a new media company.