Morning After the Revolution, Nellie Bowles
Morning After the Revolution, Nellie Bowles
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Morning After the Revolution
Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

Bestseller

Author: Nellie Bowles

Narrator: Nellie Bowles

Unabridged: 6 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 05/14/2024


Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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.

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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by mark

An amusing autopsy. The corpse is still fetching, still an inspiration to many, despite the rot that started internally and that now corrupts most of the body, a sickness that led to its recent death. But is it truly dead? The pathologist, Nellie Bowles, is not quite sure. Not long ago, she was a de......more

Goodreads review by Scott

Sometimes, a good idea can go too far. Good intentions can, sometimes, lead to unintended negative consequences. Case in point: Wokeism. Being “woke” used to be, in my opinion, a good thing. It still can be, if it’s referring to its original intent and meaning, which is simply a consciousness of socia......more

Goodreads review by Julia

I admit a major reason I wanted to read this book was because it seemed to be making so many people at legacy media outlets so very upset, and their reviews smacked deeply of jealousy: Nellie Bowles is co-founder of the Free Press, an ex-New York Times reporter who fell out of favor at that institut......more

Goodreads review by Ivy

Given how amazing TGIF is with the Free Press every week, um yeah this is gonna be a 5 star read. — Update! I can confirm this was a 5 star read. I love Nellie’s work because of how she brings humor into everyday issues and how witty she is to describe the current political climate. This book really hi......more


Quotes

“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