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Liar's circus : a strange and terrifying journey into the upside-down world of Trump's MAGA rallies / Carl Hoffman.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063028883
- ISBN: 0063028883
- Physical Description: viii, 262 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition: Large print edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The crowd loves density -- Are you a good person? -- You must love Jesus more than your own life -- He's Heaven-sent -- Dream on -- The people and the anti-people -- They even downsized Walmart -- It's all psyops -- Ordinary people -- She'd kill to win -- The leader wants to survive -- Her penis is swinging -- I'd pick up his poop -- I would fight you for him -- That black woman was not here -- We are kicking their ass -- Thousands cried out ... some fainted -- A self-induced imaginary frenzy -- They got full of ideas -- We have a solution -- Coercion, domination, control -- I won't bend over and lick their ass -- The Q clock will blow your mind -- Someday we'll go for a horseback ride. |
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- 1 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.
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Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | LT 973.933 H699L 2020 (Text) | 33126024450300 | Large Print Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | LT 973.933 H699L 2020 (Text) | 33126024450193 | Large Print Nonfiction | Trace | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail meets a work of daring and immersive contemporary anthropology: Carl Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, journeys deep inside President Trump's rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the president's base"-- - HARPERCOLL
"A brilliant, riveting, funny, terrifying journey into the beating heart of Trumpland." âLiza Mundy, author of Code Girls
In this daring work of immersive journalism, based on hundreds of hours of reporting, Carl Hoffman journeys deep inside Donald Trumpâs rallies, seeking to understand the strange and powerful tribe that forms the presidentâs base.Â
Hoffman, who has written about the most dangerous and remote corners of the world, pierced this alternate society, welcomed in and initiated into its rites and upside-down beliefs, and finally ushered to its inner sanctum. Equally freewheeling and profound, Liarâs Circus tracks the MAGA faithful across five thousand miles of the American heartland during a crucial arc of the Trump presidency stretching from the impeachment saga to the dawn of the coronavirus pandemic that ended the rallies as we know it.
Trumpâs rallies are a singular and defining force in American historyâa kind of Rosetta stone to understanding the Age of Trump. Yet while much remarked upon, they are, in fact, little examined, with the focus almost always on Trumpâs latest outrageous statement. But who are the tens of thousands of people who fill these arenas? What do they see in Trump? And what curious alchemyâbetween president and adoring crowdâhappens there that might explain Trumpâs rise and powerful hold over both his base and the GOP?
To those on the left, the rallies are a Black Mass of American politics at which Trump plays high priest, recklessly summoning the darkest forces within the nation. To the MAGA faithful, the rallies are a form of pilgrimage, a joyous ceremony that like all rituals binds people together and makes them feel a part of something bigger than themselves. Both sides would acknowledge that this traveling roadshow is the pressurized, combustible core of Trumpâs political power, a meeting of the faithful where Trump is unshackled and his rhetoric reaches its most extreme, with downstream consequences for the rest of the nation.
To date, no reporter has sought to understand the rallies as a sociological phenomenon examined from the bottom up. Hoffman has done just this. He has stood in line for more than 170 hours with Trump's most ardent superfans and joined them at the very front row; he has traveled from Minnesota to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Hampshire immersing himself in their culture.Â
Liarâs Circus is a revelatory portrait of Trumpâs America, from one of our most intrepid journalists.Â