The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own
country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and
violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory
explanatory power. 'This is a searing book, exquisitely reported,
lyrically told, and so vivid it will make your heart stop-a dark
journey into what ails America' Patrick Radden Keefe On the morning
of January 6, a gallows was erected on the National Mall in
Washington, D.C. A little after noon, as thousands of Trump
supporters marched past the structure, some paused to climb its
wooden steps and take pictures of the US Capitol framed within an
oval noose. Up ahead, the dull thud of stun grenades could be
heard, accompanied by bright flashes. Several people carried
Confederate flags. Others had Tasers, baseball bats, bear spray,
and truncheons. 'They need help!' a man shouted. 'It's us versus
the cops!' No one seemed surprised by what was taking place. There
was an eerie sense of inexorability, mixed with nervous hesitation.
It reminded me of combat: the slightly shocked, almost bashful
moment when bravado, fantasy, and training crash against reality.
In early 2020, Luke Mogelson, who had been living in France and
covering the Global War on Terrorism, returned home to report on
the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the fore in
the US. Soon, he found himself embedded with militias descending on
the Michigan state capitol. From there, the story swept him on to
Minneapolis, then to Portland, and ultimately to Washington, D.C.
His stories for The New Yorker were hailed as essential first
drafts of history. They were just the tip of the iceberg. The Storm
Is Here is the definitive eyewitness account of how--during a
season of sickness, economic uncertainty, and violence--a large
segment of Americans became convinced that they needed to rise up
against dark forces plotting to take their country away from them,
and then did just that. It builds month by month, through vivid
depictions of events on the ground, from the onset of the pandemic
to the attack on the US Capitol--during which Mogelson was in the
Senate chamber with the insurrectionists--and its aftermath.
Bravely reported and beautifully written, Mogelson's book follows
the tradition of some of the essential chronicles of war and unrest
of our time.
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