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Morning After the Revolution

Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

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Morning After the Revolution

By: Nellie Bowles
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too.

As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends—until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such 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 expected.

In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives listeners a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life.

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.

©2023 Nellie Bowles (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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Critic reviews

“A wild ride”–New York Post

“A wickedly enjoyable book.”–The Guardian

“A beach read of America’s death throes.... Bowles’s prose has a documentary sobriety that allows people to act and speak for themselves.”–The Washington Examiner

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Great breakdown of a spiraling movement. Relatable for anyone that stood by the left for most of their life and finally took a closer look recently.

Must read

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Nellie’s writing is crisp and funny, and her narration is excellent. As a fellow native San Franciscan, I particularly loved the chapter on our city. Everyone should read or listen to this book.

Chef’s kiss!

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Really well written and argued analysis of the past few years in American pop culture and history

Great book, well read

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Timely and perspicacious. That this gem of a book was narrated by the author herself made the chapters especially personable. I now intend to read more from Nellie Bowles; she merits attention.

awakening from "wokeness"

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This book is well written and puts a complex political movement into perspective without editorializing or passing judgement.

Brilliant book!

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Loved hearing this from the author. Alternately serious and hilarious, Nellie dishes it up to both sides but is especially strong on the failings of the Left that have left so many of us feeling politically homeless, caught between anti-abortion right wingers who acknowledge the importance of biological sex and the woke gender ideologues who deny it. As someone with “lived experience” of the institutional acid that is Tema Okun’s white supremacy culture list, I particularly appreciated Nellie’s story of how it came to be gospel in institutions large and small. This is just one of many strands covered by Dispatches. Enjoy!

Brilliant skewering of both sides of the culture war over the past 8 years

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A reminder of the time I and my peers lost our minds. A necessary reminder of recent events (especially the ones I wish to forget).

A great listen

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Well written, well read! Great book detailing an experience of shunning and cancellation at the NYT

Excellent!

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It's hard to know all the important details of the recent past and here they are. It's important to remember how microscopic all this has been. The levels of infighting from otherwise political allies.

And for what? I laughed through most of it. The parts on San Francisco tho, they made me deeply sad. This is a great American city, what are we doing? And why are we doing it? The details are staggering put side-by-side.

I'm very glad I listened to this book.

Details of what we have lived through

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It was upsetting but great insight into the fringe progressive left. Amazing to know some of the things this group has actually started to believe.

Great book

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