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  • Morning After the Revolution

  • Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History
  • Written by: Nellie Bowles
  • Narrated by: Nellie Bowles
  • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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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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What the critics say

“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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Progression of the culture war from an ex-culture warrior

I’ve heard quite enough about the culture war for a lifetime but I purchased this book because I’m a big Nellie fan from her Free Press column TGIF. While it contained a lot of what you’d expect it was entertaining, absurd, funny, serious and personal. Worth a listen/read.

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Meh

A long time Liberal from a wealthy family finds out that she had no clue what the difference was between Liberalism and reality.

Nellie is pretty funny, just not here.

Her book adds nothing to the discussion.

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