War for Eternity, Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
War for Eternity, Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
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War for Eternity
Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers

Author: Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

Narrator: Robert Petkoff

Unabridged: 9 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/21/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

An explosive and unprecedented inside look at Steve Bannon's entourage of global powerbrokers and the hidden alliances shaping today's geopolitical upheaval. In 2015, Bloomberg News named Steve Bannon “the most dangerous political operative in America.” Since then, he has grown exponentially more powerful—and not only in the United States. In this groundbreaking and urgent account, award-winning scholar of the radical right Benjamin Teitelbaum takes readers behind-the-scenes of Bannon's global campaign against modernity. Inspired by a radical twentieth-century ideology called Traditionalism, Bannon and a small group of right-wing powerbrokers are planning new political mobilizations on a global scale—discussed and debated in secret meetings organized by Bannon in hotel suites and private apartments in DC, Europe and South America. Their goal? To upend the world order and reorganize geopolitics on the basis of archaic values rather than modern ideals of democracy, freedom, social progress, and human rights. Their strenuous efforts are already producing results, from the fortification of borders throughout the world and the targeting of immigrants, to the undermining of the European Union and United States governments, and the expansion of Russian influence. Drawing from exclusive interviews with Bannon’s hidden network of far-right thinkers, years of academic research into the radical right, and with unprecedented access to the esoteric salons where they meet, Teitelbaum exposes their considerable impact on the world and their radical vision for the future.  Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

Benjamin R. Teitelbaum is an award-winning expert on the radical right and a professor of ethnomusicology and international affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the author of Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism, and has written on far-right politics for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Atlantic.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Murtaza on July 04, 2020

The ideology of Traditionalism (capital-T) has existed on the margins of Western society since it was formulated just over a century ago. A response to the spiritual dislocations of secularism, Mark Sedgwick has described Traditionalism as an alternate intellectual history of modernity. By nature it......more

Goodreads review by Maru on January 26, 2022

Olavo de Carvalho who, before his death from covid-19 on 24 January 2022 was a key ideologue behind Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, features prominently in this work as an astrologer, Traditionalist philosopher and important influence on the thought of Steve Bannon. De Carvalho had described the......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan on May 23, 2020

Excellent, immensely fascinating read overall. Despite the American cover (UK cover is much more accurate), the book covers a wide swath of contemporary political philosophical figures connected to Bannon—chiefly Aleksandr Dugin and Olavo de Carvalho, among other minor (but still important) figures,......more

Goodreads review by Ari on November 24, 2020

At their very core, they make sense: they believe in everyone having a unique identity and maintaining our culture and our roots. But there are a lot of confusing things and contraditions, like mixing religions, Islam being both bad and good, the nostalgia for some golden pre-modern society. Some of......more

Goodreads review by Antônio on March 31, 2022

Excelente maneira de compreender o que está por trás de movimentos geopolíticos atuais.......more