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Blood Red Lines
- Author
- Brendan O'Connor
- Narrator
- Adam Grupper
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 11 May 2021
- Run Time
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump’s presidency, the rise of the “alt-right,” and the caging of migrant children and adults in detention centers across the country
For all of the energy that the far right has demonstrated—and for all of the support that they receive from institutional conservatives in the GOP and affiliated organizations—the United States is experiencing an upsurge in left-wing social movements unlike any other in the past half-century, with roots not in the Democratic Party but Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter.
Drawing on his original reporting as well as archival research, O’Connor investigates how the capitalist class and the radical right mobilize racism to defend their interests, while focusing on one of the most pressing issues of our time: immigration.
Critics Review
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“O’Connor’s argument about worker power is a persuasive one.’’
The Nation
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“Makes an important contribution to the political debate over immigration…This is a call to continuous action on the left.”
New Republic
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“A searing and wide-ranging investigation…envisioning a broad-based coalition of progressive groups to defeat ‘today’s border fascism’….O’Connor’s impressive research and investigative skills shine through.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Blood Red Lines has set the bar for new works on the contemporary fascist right, for researchers and antifascist organizers both.”
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“This is a painful, clear-sighted, casually shocking, necessary read.”
Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author
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“A forensic deep-dive into the dark arterial network of the anti-immigrant far-right.”
Justin Akers Chacón, author of No One is Illegal
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“Lucidly distills scholarly literature and marshals years of on-the-ground reporting.”
Daniel Denvir, author of All-American Nativism
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“Deftly unties the odious rat king of old-money nativism, murderous fascism, and rapacious neoliberalism.”
Vegas Tenold, author of Everything You Love Will Burn
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“A vivid account of the rise of a unique kind of US fascism…Indispensable.”
Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
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“A work of groundbreaking reporting and intense urgency”
Anna Merlan, author of Republic of Lies
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“A wide-ranging, deep-thinking, profoundly necessary book on the overlap between the alt-right and anti-immigrant movements on the boil in the United States.”
John Washington, author of The Dispossessed
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Details
- Author
- Brendan O'Connor
- Narrator
- Adam Grupper
- Duration
- 9 hours 50 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 May 2021
- ISBN
- 9781665047012
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Nationalism, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Social discrimination and equal treatment
Synopsis
An engaging and reflective look at how austerity and the billionaire class paved the way for Trump’s presidency, the rise of the “alt-right,” and the caging of migrant children and adults in detention centers across the countryFor all of the energy that the far right has demonstrated—and for all of the support that they receive from institutional conservatives in the GOP and affiliated organizations—the United States is experiencing an upsurge in left-wing social movements unlike any other in the past half-century, with roots not in the Democratic Party but Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter.Drawing on his original reporting as well as archival research, O’Connor investigates how the capitalist class and the radical right mobilize racism to defend their interests, while focusing on one of the most pressing issues of our time: immigration.
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