Synopsis
An explosive and unprecedentedinside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hiddenalliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval.In 2015, Bloomberg News namedSteve Bannon “the most dangerous political operative in America.” Since then,he has grown exponentially more powerful—and not only in the United States. Inthis groundbreaking and urgent account, award-winning scholar of the radicalright Benjamin Teitelbaum takes readers behind-the-scenes of Bannon's global campaignagainst modernity.Inspired by a radicaltwentieth-century ideology called Traditionalism, Bannon and a small group ofright-wing powerbrokers are planning new political mobilizations on a globalscale—discussed and debated in secret meetings organized by Bannon in hotelsuites and private apartments in DC, Europe and South America. Their goal?To upend the world order and reorganize geopolitics on the basis of archaic valuesrather than modern ideals of democracy, freedom, social progress, and humanrights. Their strenuous efforts are already producing results, from thefortification of borders throughout the world and the targeting of immigrants, tothe undermining of the European Union and United States governments, and theexpansion of Russian influence. Drawing from exclusive interviewswith Bannon’s hidden network of far-right thinkers, years of academic researchinto the radical right, and with unprecedented access to the esoteric salonswhere they meet, Teitelbaum exposes their considerable impact on the world andtheir radical vision for the future. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.