Morning After the Revolution

Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

Narrated by: Nellie Bowles

Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people in America lost their minds—and how she almost did, too.

As a Hillary voter, a New York Times reporter, and frequent attendee at her local gay bars, Nellie Bowles fit right in with her San Francisco neighbors and friends—until she started questioning whether the progressive movement she knew and loved was actually helping people. When her colleagues suggested that asking such questions meant she was “on the wrong side of history,” Bowles did what any reporter worth her salt would do: she started investigating for herself. The answers she found were stranger—and funnier—than she expected.

In Morning After the Revolution, Bowles gives listeners a front-row seat to the absurd drama of a political movement gone mad. With irreverent accounts of attending a multiday course on “The Toxic Trends of Whiteness,” following the social justice activists who run “Abolitionist Entertainment LLC,” and trying to please the New York Times’s “disinformation czar,” she deftly exposes the more comic excesses of a movement that went from a sideshow to the very center of American life.

Deliciously funny and painfully insightful, Morning After the Revolution is a moment of collective psychosis preserved in amber. This is an unmissable debut by one of America’s sharpest journalists.

©2023 Nellie Bowles (P)2023 Penguin Audio

WTAF

This book made me smarter. I honestly cannot believe there are people in our world who are so delusional. Thank you, Nellie for opening my eyes to the extreme left.

Fascinating from page one

Brave, unflinching and deeply entertaining Ms Bowles captured the energy of a very specific and very strange time. I was swept up from page one.

Great book, well read

Really well written and argued analysis of the past few years in American pop culture and history

Must read

Great breakdown of a spiraling movement. Relatable for anyone that stood by the left for most of their life and finally took a closer look recently.

Brilliant book!

This book is well written and puts a complex political movement into perspective without editorializing or passing judgement.

Brilliant skewering of both sides of the culture war over the past 8 years

Loved hearing this from the author. Alternately serious and hilarious, Nellie dishes it up to both sides but is especially strong on the failings of the Left that have left so many of us feeling politically homeless, caught between anti-abortion right wingers who acknowledge the importance of biological sex and the woke gender ideologues who deny it. As someone with “lived experience” of the institutional acid that is Tema Okun’s white supremacy culture list, I particularly appreciated Nellie’s story of how it came to be gospel in institutions large and small. This is just one of many strands covered by Dispatches. Enjoy!

A great listen

A reminder of the time I and my peers lost our minds. A necessary reminder of recent events (especially the ones I wish to forget).

Excellent!

Well written, well read! Great book detailing an experience of shunning and cancellation at the NYT

Great book for Normies!

First off, I always like books that are read by the author. They know exactly what they want to emphasize, etc. Also, as a subscriber to The Free Press I truly appreciate the non-partisan political view that's equally critical of the extremes. Well done.

If you are a classic liberal and wonder what happened to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, read this book

This was an entertaining and eye-opening book. Author did a great job on the audio.