Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From the Wrong Side of History

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'Not since Joan Didion in her prime has a writer reported from inside inside a system gone mad with this much style, intelligence and wit ... A perfect book' Caitlin Flanagan

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles comes an irreverent romp through the sacred spaces of the new left.

As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and a 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 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 absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multi-day 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 centre of Western life.

Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber.

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Bowles goes out and gets the story rather than theorising from the comfort of her desk The snapshots built a transfixing collage of lunacy, but I ended every chapter longing to know more Bowles writes with commendable (and slightly scary) frankness - Sarah Ditum, The Times

'Wickedly enjoyable' - Rachel Cooke, Observer

'Not since Joan Didion in her prime has a writer reported from inside inside a system gone mad with this much style, intelligence and wit. I read Nellie Bowles' Morning After the Revolution with gathering excitement - it's a perfect book' - Caitlin Flanagan

Bowless insistence on pursuing the truth on being curious about what is true, and what is going on is an animating feature of Morning After the Revolution - Kat Rosenfield, Unherd

A closely observed chronicle of a peculiar moment: the anti-Covid lockdowns of spring 2020 and the anti-racist protests and riots in the US that summer Bowles has a delicate ear for the jargon of movements and the cant of cliques - David Bromwich, TLS Books of the Year

Author Bio

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 Geral Loeb Award in the investigative category 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.