The Coming Storm, Gabriel Gatehouse
The Coming Storm, Gabriel Gatehouse
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The Coming Storm
A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine

Author: Gabriel Gatehouse

Narrator: Gabriel Gatehouse

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: BBC Digital

Published: 09/05/2024


Synopsis

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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. The Coming Storm marks the debut of a major new voice in political journalism.

“Gabriel Gatehouse is a brilliant spelunker of the rabbit holes of American political culture. A spellbinding storyteller and reader of the runes of the strange times we live in.” – Louis Theroux

© Gabriel Gatehouse 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Reviews

Goodreads review by Avril on October 09, 2024

Well, this was terrifying. The book ends: “No system lasts for ever: just as the printing press overturned the old feudal order, so the new technology will overturn that which replaced it - a system that slowly edged towards the values of the Enlightenment, of individual liberty, human rights and uni......more

Goodreads review by Graham on January 19, 2025

I read this after listening to both seasons of the excellent podcast, which inspired this book, The Coming Storm by Gabriel Gatehouse, so not much of the information contained within was new to me. That said, this is a great read. With a second term for Donald Trump starting tomorrow, it was kind of......more

Goodreads review by Brittany on July 22, 2025

I listened to this as an audiobook and found it fascinating. The content is heavy but the author manages to keep it light and pretty free of judgement, which I myself struggle to do at times. It explains things in a way that makes me understand the psychology behind people on the conspiracy train, e......more

Goodreads review by Chelsea on January 02, 2025

This was a good book and an interesting dive into the world of conspiracy theories in the US. Useful to understand the origins of some of them - but overall a good reminder that discourse around elections and calls of election fraud have existed for decades. Worth the read!......more

Goodreads review by The Bibliognost Bampot on May 02, 2025

Fascinating and meticulously researched. Written in a straight forward, clear style, easy to read, even if the subject matter is so unpalatable! A truly awful look down the grubby, dark hole that is the world right now. Every single person is deplorable and not even remotely normal, they all present......more


Quotes

An epic effort that brings together several disparate strands into an explanatory, thoroughly scary whole. the Guardian

His reporting is meticulous, his storytelling is as compelling as it is chilling. the New Statesman

An intelligent and beautifully made series. the Telegraph