{"product_id":"american-whitelash-a-changing-nation-and-the-cost-of-progress-isbn-9780358393269","title":"American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year • \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“American Whitelash\u003c\/em\u003e is indispensable. Really. It is.” \u003c\/strong\u003e– \u003cstrong\u003eIbram X. Kendi, author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Be an Antiracist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wesley Lowery confronts the sickness at the heart of American society: the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred every moment of racial progress in this country, and whose bloodshed began anew following Obama’s 2008 election.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2008, Barack Obama’s historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be—just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election of the nation’s first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy, igniting a new and frightening phase in a historical American cycle of racial progress and white backlash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e American Whitelash, \u003c\/em\u003ePulitzer Prize–winning journalist and best-selling author Wesley Lowery charts the return of this blood-stained trend, showing how the forces of white power retaliated against Obama’s victory—and both profited from, and helped to propel, the rise of Donald Trump. Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping firsthand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, Lowery uncovers how this vicious cycle is carrying us into ever more perilous territory, how the federal government has failed to intervene, and how we still might find a route of escape.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Lowery provides urgent, necessary perspective…. A masterful blend of narrative history and empathetic reporting.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eAmerican Whitelash\u003c\/em\u003e offers a livid account of the hydra-like capacity of white-supremacist ideas not just to survive but to flourish.... It's an infuriating, radicalizing read…. A good primer on the unhealthy state of the nation as we enter election season.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lowery’s galvanizing new book charts the cycle of racial progress and white backlash that has repeatedly played out through U.S. history. Beginning with President Barack Obama’s 2008 election, Lowery investigates contemporary systems of white supremacy and how they helped bring about the unprecedented political rise of Donald Trump. Combining historical research with critical yet empathetic firsthand reporting, the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThey Can't Kill Us All\u003c\/em\u003e delivers a searing examination of the movement.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Elegant.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reveals the tensions latent in our common conceptions of racism by probing recent surges in white-supremacist violence.... [Lowery] is a lively narrative reporter with a keen eye for detail, and his prose can be devastatingly vivid.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The most eloquent passages in \u003cem\u003eThey Can’t Kill Us All\u003c\/em\u003e come when Lowery reveals the emotional cost paid by those who write the first draft of history, especially when the writers are journalists of color.... Lowery’s strength lies in the breadth of his reporting and the depth of his introspection.... Lowery is still in his twenties, but already he’s earned his spot among a small cadre of journalists of color.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune on They Can't Kill Us All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lowery provides an anthropological examination of the movement.... The result is a vivid timeline of the movement from its origins to present day.... \u003cem\u003eThey Can’t Kill Us All\u003c\/em\u003e is a documentary on the awakening of young black Americans—no, all Americans—to the systematic injustices that weren’t erased with the election of President Obama.... Lowery’s clear-eyed reporting is exceeded only by his thoughtful, sharp sentences. He allows pain to seep into the prose, not hiding the anguish of a black man reporting on so much black death while pointing out connections that can’t be ignored.... [Lowery] is one of the best on the national beat.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle on They Can't Kill Us All\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The best journalism serves as the ‘first draft of history,’ but every so often a reporter gets to write the second draft as well. Wesley Lowery has provided a crucial dispatch from a particularly American frontline. Ferguson, Charleston, Baltimore and Cleveland are more than flashpoints in current affairs, they are the theaters in which our longstanding battles for racial equality have taken place. \u003cem\u003eThey Can’t Kill Us All\u003c\/em\u003e is a valuable field report on the status of American democracy itself.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJelani Cobb, staff writer, The New Yorker, and professor of journalism, Columbia Journalism School\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The rise of white supremacist violence is one of the most important stories in American life today. In \u003cem\u003eAmerican Whitelash\u003c\/em\u003e, Wesley Lowery guides the reader through the social, psychological, and historical realities that animate this violence. It is both a brilliant and unsettling examination of a part of America that many Americans would prefer to look away from. This book reminds us that we cannot look away. \u003cem\u003eAmerican Whitelash\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential text, one that further demonstrates why Lowery is one of our country’s most important and gifted journalists.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eClint Smith, author of How the Word is Passed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wesley Lowery chronicles the most existential racial story of our time: the racist political violence that followed Obama’s election, fueled Trump’s rise, and continues to threaten our very existence. \u003cem\u003eAmerican Whitelash\u003c\/em\u003e is indispensable. Really. It is.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIbram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wesley Lowery’s \u003cem\u003eAmerican Whitelash\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential chronicle of America’s recent past, told with a historian’s sense of scope and a reporter’s eye for detail. Already the most compelling journalist covering the Black Lives Matter movement and its catalysts, here Lowery astutely turns his focus to the forces of reaction that both preceded the election of Barack Obama and found new strength in its aftermath.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdam Serwer, author of The Cruelty is the Point\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lowery’s book is electric, because it is so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart.... Lowery’s book is valuable for many reasons. 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