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From one of the most important figures in American journalism acclaimed historian, Pulitzer finalist, staff writer at the New Yorker, and dean of Columbia Journalism Schoola devastatingly insightful collection of published and original work that paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of our last turbulent decade.
What just happened?
From the moment Trayvon Martins senseless murder initiated the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, America has been convulsed by the new social movementsaround guns, gender violence, sexual harrassment, race, policing, and on and onand an equally powerful backlash. Jelani Cobb has been reporting and commenting on these changessometimes from the frontlines of places like Ferguson and Charleston, other times from a more studied remove, where he applies his gifts as a critic and background as a historian to penetrate the meaning of it all. He has written profiles of some of the key figures of the erafrom directors and comedians to activists and politiciansand written on some of great cultural artifactsfilm, television, and music. Through this shifting lens, hes captured the crises, the movements, and absurdity of an eraand helped readers understand what might be coming next.
As in this countrys other great moments of turbulence, this has been an era of democratic expansion and contraction, the latest in a series of battles over what it means to be an American. Cobb strings this collection together with original workthe original pieces provide the connective tissue that helps readers see these powerful short dispatches as a cohesive, epic narrative of one of the most consequential, but hard to understand, eras in American history.
Author: Jelani Cobb
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: One World
Published: 10/14/2025
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780593978207
Language: English
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