Anna Merlan Republic of Lies Paperback Book

Timely and troubling Evening StandardA necessary book David AaronovitchFrequently jawdropping Huffington PostFrom UFOs to the New World Order, the inside story of how conspiracy theories won over America. In November 2017, a serial climate change denier and antivaxxer was elected President of the United States. The rise of Donald Trump marked the beginning of a new American epoch the age of the conspiracy theorist. Now, Anna Merlan goes undercover in Americas sprawling network of conspiracy theorists and uncovers their secrets. She meets the UFOlogist who claims to have travelled to Mars with a young Barack Obama. She chats with the pizzagate truthers who think Washington D.C. s favourite pizzeria is run by a satanic paedophile ring. And she bumps into Alex Jones, the YouTube impresario who thinks the state is using chemical warfare to turn the population gay and who happens to be on firstname terms with the leader of the free world. Merlan reveals a world of innuendo and propaganda lying just beneath the surface of US culture. It might just help explain the political turmoil of our time. Through exhaustive research, personal interviews, and a critical yet at times appropriately empathetic approach, writer Anna Merlan has written a captivating book that illuminates the landscape of conspiracy theories. New York MagazineAn entertaining taxonomy of toxic ideas HeraldA rocksteady narrator with a ready command of history, nerves of steel, and incisive social insights . . . We... | Anna Merlan Republic of Lies Paperback Book