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Dropping my kid off at daycare this morning, I couldn't help but concede that a sudden new crisp had taken over—and that the air felt positively delightful. Fall lovers, I thought to myself, may have a point after all. I started to envision colder evenings stuck home, far from social obligations, with nice reading material. At the moment, I've got a few books in the queue, including Avalon by Nell Zink. It's not exactly fireside stuff, but I'm also looking forward to our own David Corn's newest, American Psychosis. As you all should, following the lead of Rachel Maddow, who had this to say about it this past Monday: "I have been dying to read [American Psychosis] since I heard it was coming out. What David Corn is writing about—in his irreducible, ineffable David Corn way—is this cautionary tale for what's happened today. And also a reminder that we've dealt with some of these dynamics before."
Now, I don't exactly see myself curling up to tales of the GOP's horrors for fun this fall; my book lists tend to eschew non-fiction in general. But I can tell you that I will be referring to David's observations on how the Republican Party lost its way in future writings. As Maddow said on Monday, "We just need smart, digestible history about this stuff right now"—and David's latest is an excellent distillation of the party's drift toward extremism over the last few decades. —Inae Oh |
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The new book from our DC bureau chief details seven decades of bigotry, paranoia, and conspiracy. |
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