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Jared Yates Sexton is the author of The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore. He is a contributing political writer at Salon, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He is an associate professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University. You can follow him at @JYSexton.
Praise for The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your
Shore
Named a Best Book of 2017 (The Coil)
A Best Book by Hoosier Authors in 2017 (Indianapolis Monthly)
“An impressionistic and often disturbing account of the 2016
presidential race . . . Sexton grapples with the Trump campaign
from the perspective of the crowds reveling in the candidate’s
presence and message. It is a useful vantage point given the
increasingly blatant bigotry in the months since the election . . .
This book reveals the incremental nature of public displays of
hatred, growing from harsh chants and bumper stickers to, say, an
open and unmasked gathering of white supremacists in
Charlottesville . . . [His] dispatches are bracing.” —The
Washington Post
“With a novelist’s flair for the dramatic scene and evocative
detail, Sexton expertly marries the quotidian tedium of the
campaign trail (so many hotel room beers) and the outlandish
circumstances of this particular election season with his astute
observations about our polarized national condition.” —Salon
“Sexton writes as a reporter who experienced both life and politics
in the 2016 campaign. His book is excellent . . . [It] tries to
make sense of a country trying to make sense of itself.” —Winnipeg
Free Press
“A ground–level account, sticking close to Sexton and his
increasing miseries as he wades into the festering sewer of the
2016 election. The unique perspective, eye–deep in hell, is equal
parts mortifying and edifying. Sexton measures the depths of
depravity as he goes, but reminds us that these depths have always
existed in the nation.” —The Coil
“Jared Yates Sexton, previously a minor–league pundit, is now
making an outsider’s case for having penned one of the important
books of the 2016 presidential race. The People Are Going to Rise
Like the Waters Upon Your Shore gets outside the iron ring of
microphones that surround, suffocate, and trivialize campaign
journalism.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“Sexton’s first–person account is both candidly relatable and
viscerally frightening . . . [His] seamless blending of his
reporter’s objectivity with the personal evaluations of a voter who
has skin in the game yields trenchant analysis . . . Sexton’s is a
critical and important voice in helping readers understand the
cultural and political sea change the election created.” —Booklist
(starred review)
“First of all, this is the best book title of 2017, hands down.
Second, and more importantly, this is the book to read if you want
to understand what the hell happened in the United States in 2016.
If you follow Sexton on Twitter (and you should), you know he
brings a sharp eye, fierce intellect, and resilient capacity for
surprise to the problem of American political life. And that’s just
140 characters at a time. Just imagine what he can do with 300+
pages.” —Bookriot
“A leftist counterweight to Hillbilly Elegy, laced with shots of
Hunter S. Thompson . . . A useful snapshot of a tumultuous
presidential race.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Sexton's reporting provides a unique nuts–and–bolts look at the
campaigns, and his eyewitness reports of the aggressive displays at
Trump rallies are both terrifying and fascinating.” —Publishers
Weekly
“This is the post–campaign book I was waiting for. Nothing else has
shown me so clearly the ruptures in our culture aligned with
Trump's candidacy, or even the nature of the way we choose a
president. Essential reading for understanding this country now and
going forward.” —Alexander Chee, author of How to Write an
Autobiographical Novel
“Jared Yates Sexton didn't just randomly become a phenomenon in his
chronicling of Donald Trump's fans and foibles, it happened because
he's our Jane Goodall to Trump's Deplorables. His work has been
indispensable to those who have tried to understand our times, with
an honesty lacking among most of our mainstream media. Read this
book.” —Cliff Schecter, bestselling author of The Real McCain: Why
Conservatives Don't Trust Him—And Why Independents Shouldn't and a
columnist for The Daily Beast
“Jared Yates Sexton ventured into the dark heart of American
partisanship and emerged with a warning that all of us would do
well to heed. Thoughtful, compassionate, and exceptionally brave,
this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand
how—and why—our country turned on itself.” —Bronwen Dickey, author
of Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon
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