03357nam a22004215i 4500 23353972 PUCPR 20241107102415.0 231017s2024 nyuao g 000 0 eng 2023948615 9781324074519 (paperback) 9781324006497 (hardcover) 9781324006503 (epub) DLC eng rda DLC eng pcc PUCPR 23 973.9 23 973.9 Sharlet, Jeff, 1971- author The Undertow : scenes from a slow civil war / Jeff Sharlet. 2403 New York, New York : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2024. 337 pages : illustrations; photographs; text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "One of America's finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart. An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into corners of our national psyche where others fear to tread. The Undertow is both inquiry and meditation, an attempt to understand how, over the last decade, reaction has morphed into delusion, social division into distrust, distrust into paranoia, and hatred into fantasies-sometimes realities-of violence. Across the country, men "of God" glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while citing Scripture and preparing for civil war-a firestorm they long for as an absolution and exaltation. Lies, greed, and glorification of war boom through microphones at hipster megachurches that once upon a time might have preached peace and understanding. Political rallies are as aflame with need and giddy expectation as religious revivals. At a conference for incels, lonely single men come together to rage against women. On the Far Right, everything is heightened-love into adulation, fear into vengeance, anger into white-hot rage. Here, in the undertow, our forty-fifth president, a vessel of conspiratorial fears and fantasies, continues to rise to sainthood, and the insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt, killed on January 6 at the Capitol, is beatified as a martyr of white womanhood. Framing this dangerous vision, Sharlet remembers and celebrates the courage of those who sing a different song of community, and of an America long dreamt of and yet to be fully born, dedicated to justice and freedom for all. Exploring a geography of grief and uncertainty in the midst of plague and rising fascism, The Undertow is a necessary reckoning with our precarious present that brings to light a decade of American failures as well as a vision for American possibility"-- Provided by publisher. Trump, Donald, 1946- 181759 Social conflict 171749 History 21st Century United States Fundamentalism 99687 Political aspects 21st Century United States White people Race identity United States 301731 White nationalism 301732 United States United States 293958 Religion and politics 21st Century 0 ibc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg 6 ddc 23 973.9 301430 301430 0 0 ddc 0 0 10 10 1 2024-01-09 19 22.96 0 973.9 S5313u 2023 80000002653973 2024-01-09 00:00:00 22.96 2024-01-09 6