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Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm
Backstory, 71 Balham High Road, SW12 9AP
With the US election on a knife-edge, BBC foreign correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse will guide us through what is at stake based on his deep reporting of the conspiracy theories tearing America apart.
About the book:
Is this how democracy dies? The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse’s brilliant exploration of how conspiracy theories are tearing America apart. It’s a story that takes you down a rabbit hole - one that both the US as a nation and he as a journalist fell through - to unpack an epochal shift in political culture that starts in the earliest years of the Clinton administration and reached a crescendo on 6 January 2021 with the storming of the US Capitol.
But that event wasn’t the wild finale of a chaotic Trump presidency many hoped for - it was only the beginning. A compelling mix of research and reportage, The Coming Storm gets under the skin of these conspiracy theories to show us a radical new kind of politics emerging, a movement that has coalesced around a loose alliance of tech bros, internet trolls and white supremacists. At a perilous moment in the history of American democracy, Gatehouse tells us some dark truths about our present, and provides clues about our future.
Tickets available:
Ticket only - £15
Ticket & book (RRP £25, to collect on the night) - £30