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Sasha Abramsky is a long-time political journalist and book author who has spent the last thirty years exploring the American political and social justice landscape. He has written extensively on poverty, on criminal justice, on immigration, and on the rise of hard-right and alt-right political movements.
"""[an] enthralling account...an eye-opening close-up view of American politics.""--Publishers Weekly, starred review ""Abramsky listens to people we might dismiss as villains, hearing the fear, whether justified or ginned up, behind their increasingly extremist worldview. Chaos Comes Calling helps us reckon with the trauma that reverberates."" --Joan Walsh, National Affairs Correspondent, the Nation ""Abramsky takes us out of the Washington, DC, media echosphere and its myopic coverage of national horseraces and puts us on the ground in real communities where Trump, Bannon, and their cacophony of lies and falsehoods have already curdled the local governments, perverting the laboratories of democracy into wellsprings of authoritarianism. The fight against these people starts at home."" --Elie Mystal, New York Times-bestselling author of Allow Me to Retort ""In this chilling report from the American West, Abramsky shows how the extreme right has mobilized to upend local democratic institutions and warns of a fascist threat that's alarmingly close and widespread. A disturbing, necessary book."" --Eric Klinenberg, author of 2020 ""There are real people in this intimately reported book, real consequences--and also real hope. The great achievement of Chaos Comes Calling is what it reveals about how communities become captive to the little fascisms of would-be tyrants, and how some, at least, free themselves. This story about small places has big implications."" --Jeff Sharlet, New York Times-bestselling author of The Undertow"
