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A REVELATORY AND DARKLY COMIC Excursion THROUGH A Land AROUND THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN—FROM HALLS OF CONGRESS TO THE BASES OF BAGHDAD TO THE APOCALYPTIC CHURCHES OF THIS HEARTLAND
Rolling Rock’s Matt Taibbi set out to describe the type of George Bush’s America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the roadways of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, looking for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and dropping in to the rabbit opening of the 9/11 Fact Movement.
Matt learned in his trips in the united states that the resilient blue point out/red point out narrative of American politics acquired become irrelevant. A large and growing chunk of the American human population was so changed off—or radicalized—by electoral chicanery, a spineless press, and the increasingly blatant lies from our market leaders (“they hate us for our liberty”) that they deserted the politics mainstream altogether. They joined up with what he phone calls THE FANTASTIC Derangement.
Taibbi tells the story of this new American madness by placing himself into four defining North american subcultures: The Army, where he locates himself mired in the grotesque dark funny of the American profession of Iraq; The System, where he uses the money-slicked way of legislation in Congress; The Resistance, where he doubles as main general public antagonist and undercover member of the passionately bonkers 9/11 Fact Movement; and The Church, where he infiltrates a politically important apocalyptic mega-ministry in Texas and enters the lives of its anxious congregants. Mutually these four interwoven travels paint a family portrait of a land dangerously out of touch with truth and desperately looking for answers in all the wrong places.
Funny, smart, and a little bit heartbreaking, The Great Derangement is an audaciously reported, sobering, and illuminating family portrait of America at the end of the Bush era.
