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The Coming Storm

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Is this how democracy dies?

The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse’s brilliant exploration of how conspiracy theories are tearing America apart. It’s a story that takes you down a rabbit hole - one that both the US as a nation and he as a journalist fell through - to unpack an epochal shift in political culture that starts in the earliest years of the Clinton administration and reached a crescendo on 6 January 2021 with the storming of the US Capitol. But that event wasn’t the wild finale of a chaotic Trump presidency many hoped for - it was only the beginning.

A compelling mix of research and reportage, The Coming Storm gets under the skin of these conspiracy theories to show us a radical new kind of politics emerging, a movement that has coalesced around a loose alliance of tech bros, internet trolls and white supremacists. At a perilous moment in the history of American democracy, Gatehouse tells us some dark truths about our present, and provides clues about our future. The Coming Storm marks the debut of a major new voice in political journalism.

“Gabriel Gatehouse is a brilliant spelunker of the rabbit holes of American political culture. A spellbinding storyteller and reader of the runes of the strange times we live in.” – Louis Theroux

© Gabriel Gatehouse 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Critics Review

An epic effort that brings together several disparate strands into an explanatory, thoroughly scary whole.
the Guardian
His reporting is meticulous, his storytelling is as compelling as it is chilling.
the New Statesman
An intelligent and beautifully made series.
the Telegraph
Author Gabriel Gatehouse
Narrator Gabriel Gatehouse
Duration 9 hours and 35 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473533752
Format Audiobook
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Genre Conspiracy theories, Geopolitics, Political structures: democracy
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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