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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 readers 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.
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From the Publisher

A wickedly enjoyable book, says The Guardian about MORNING AFTER THE REVOLUTION

A beach read of America's death throes... says The Washington Examiner

A critical and very funny lens on the movement, says Newsday

A transfixing collage of lunacy says the Times of London. A wild ride, says The New York Post

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“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

“Her strength as a guide is that the New Progressives were her tribe, and she still feels sympathy for them even if she has turned heretic.”
–The Times
 
“A critical and very funny lens on the movement.”
–Newsday
 
“A grand tour through the craziness that followed the killing of George Floyd and continues to this day, despite the majority of Americans shaking their heads in bewilderment.”
–Tablet

About the Author

Nellie Bowles is a writer living in Los Angeles. Previously, she was a correspondent at The New York Times where, as part of a team, she won the Gerald Loeb Award in Investigations and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Journalism Award. Now she is working with her wife to build The Free Press, a new media company.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thesis (May 14, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593420144
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593420140
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.23 x 0.98 x 9.3 inches
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Nellie Bowles is a writer living in Los Angeles. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Morning After the Revolution.

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23 customers mention "Writing style"23 positive0 negative

Customers find the writing style witty, humorous, and articulate. They also say the book is superbly written and an incredibly talented writer.

"I've never reviewed a book before. Had to. So good, hilarious, brilliant. The Wi Spa chapter I had to share with friends and clients...." Read more

"This is an enjoyably written account of the thickets through which we have just barely emerged. It’s neither sad nor angry about the burrs & thorns." Read more

"It was a good, fun read, and so many of the topics are of great concern. That is what makes me love the way Nellie writes about topics (TGIF!)...." Read more

"...they were real people and events they were often comical and entertaining on one hand and rather frightening on the other...." Read more

15 customers mention "Content"15 positive0 negative

Customers find the book insightful, honest, and important. They also say it's engaging, entertaining, and validating.

"It was a good, fun read, and so many of the topics are of great concern. That is what makes me love the way Nellie writes about topics (TGIF!)...." Read more

"...So I ordered the book. It's compact. She gives the facts, and it's clear where she stands, but she doesn't belabor her opinion...." Read more

"...the moral inversion of the anti-Israel movement, this book offers some solid perspectives of the lunacy and hypocrisy of these people." Read more

"This is an insightful book. I'm happy to report that I am one of the people she wrote the book for, so I am grateful...." Read more

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Customers find the book a great and timely read.

"I've never reviewed a book before. Had to. So good, hilarious, brilliant. The Wi Spa chapter I had to share with friends and clients...." Read more

"It was a good, fun read, and so many of the topics are of great concern. That is what makes me love the way Nellie writes about topics (TGIF!)...." Read more

"...A good read. And Nellie, I still think universal healthcare is an unnecessary evil. Focus on health." Read more

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Customers find the emotional content of the book neither sad nor angry about the burrs and thorns.

"...It’s neither sad nor angry about the burrs & thorns." Read more

"...This book is also extremely poignant in light of the protests on college campuses...." Read more

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Nick James
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, Funny, Well-Written, Insightful.
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2024
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I've never reviewed a book before. Had to. So good, hilarious, brilliant. The Wi Spa chapter I had to share with friends and clients. Everyone laughed and started talking about openly and honestly. I supposed that's the point. I remember a bell hooks interview with Ice Cube where she says: Reach across the table. I could go on. Thanks Nellie. Really. XO Nick in SLC.
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K. Bryant
4.0 out of 5 stars Recent Events Framed Thoughtfully
Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2024
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This is an enjoyably written account of the thickets through which we have just barely emerged. It’s neither sad nor angry about the burrs & thorns.
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Joshua
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2024
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It was a good, fun read, and so many of the topics are of great concern. That is what makes me love the way Nellie writes about topics (TGIF!). She writes humorously and articulately about the themes in the book. It was good to revisit this period in time and how wild it was looking back on it.
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gandm
5.0 out of 5 stars Nellie Bowles is willing to report on stories the NYT and NPR refuse to.
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2024
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I wouldn't agree with the author on most political issues. She is a pretty far left progressive. What drew me to the book was reading her intro to the book. While it confirmed what I already knew about the NYT, NPR and other left leaning media, I was curious about how she would report those stories. What I learned was we were in agreement on the importance of reporting those stories and not hiding them. While we may come to different conclusions on her reporting, I have great respect for her restraint from editorializing. I viewed a different perspective and came away with a broader view.

She reported what she saw. She didn't make political points or slant what she reported to manipulate the reader. She reported what was happening without trying to filter it. While they were real people and events they were often comical and entertaining on one hand and rather frightening on the other.

Whether you self identify as right or left, progressive or conservative, Republican, Democrat or independent this is a must read.
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William Braden
5.0 out of 5 stars I love Nellie Bowles
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2024
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From reading her very funny TGIF column. So I ordered the book. It's compact. She gives the facts, and it's clear where she stands, but she doesn't belabor her opinion.

It's not as funny as her column. Her humor shows through, but it's a serious book.

It turns out I'd read two chapters already, one of them in the Atlantic.
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Atmunster
3.0 out of 5 stars Not that funny
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2024
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This is not really humor or satire, and not really any analysis. It is just a bunch of "this happened" material, and it is all things of which most of us are aware.

Many jokes can be told about the last few years, but not in this book.
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Elizabeth B.
4.0 out of 5 stars Must Read
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2024
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This should be required reading for everybody. It’s meant to be a humorous look at the absurdities of the political movements of 2020 and 2021, but in reality it’s quite horrifying. It’s like reading a chilling dystopian novel, but without the relief of knowing that the story is a cautionary fictional tale. This book is also extremely poignant in light of the protests on college campuses. For anybody who’s perplexed by the moral inversion of the anti-Israel movement, this book offers some solid perspectives of the lunacy and hypocrisy of these people.
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Mark A. Myers
5.0 out of 5 stars A Logical Awakening
Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2024
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I got to know Nellie Bowles via her endlessly entertaining Free Press TGIF column and this book didn’t disappoint. It also explains a lot about her as a person and her own evolved, and evolving, heterodox views. Hearing her so plainly lay out the generally ludicrous social, political, and, vis a vis, economic theories and recent history of modern progressivism and her healthy awakening from the stupor of this inane subculture is enlightening and I commend her for it. Perhaps most damaging to the leftists is that she doesn’t overtly criticize their inanity but just lays it all out there and lets their BS belief systems speak for themselves. A good read. And Nellie, I still think universal healthcare is an unnecessary evil. Focus on health.
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Joseph Myren
5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME for the most part
Reviewed in Canada on May 26, 2024
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Noemi Eva Klein
5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing and factual perspective
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2024
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Nellie’s experience speaks to a lot of regular people who do feel that the way certain ideologies captured the elites and the world is irrational and threatening. Great factual presentation of event that took place in America over the past years and thought provoking questioning of the motives behind those movements
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Nadine
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
Reviewed in Canada on May 28, 2024
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As a recovering leftist, I adored this book.
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