The People Are Going To Rise Like Waters Upon Your Shore

Jared Yates Sexton's criticism and commentary have remained essential in the first years of the Trump administration (whether appearing at The New Republic, Salon, The Globe and Mail, MSNBC, CNN, or retweeted tens of thousands of times on Twitter), and his is an oft-quoted voice of resistance and a champion of accountability; now, with a new afterword, he gives context to the two years that have passed since he first reported from within an incendiary Trump rally Robust academic and course adoption campaign Author available for independent bookstore and library events in GA, and paid speaking events throughout the country Praise from Librarians and Booksellers Jared Yates Sexton's chronicle of the 2016 election is the first that spoke to me on a visceral level. There's a unique value in ignoring postmortems and what-ifs and instead drilling right to the center of America, to the fracturing, raging heart of our nation, and forcing oneself not to look away. The result is a gripping dirge for who we were, who we are, and who we might have been. -Tristan Charles, bookseller, Parnassus Books (Nashville, TN) The clearest thing I've seen in my seemingly non-stop reading about what happened to us all November. -Jan Weissmiller, Prairie Lights Books (Iowa City, IA)