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

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

oh yeah

I had forgotten the extent of the madness.

Bowles is interesting and entertaining.

I want to bring her a plate of pancakes

Brilliant book!

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

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.

Excellent!

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

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).

A fascinating read by an author who ultimately called bs on something she had been a part of

People who are actually open and honest enough to change their minds are the most fascinating people in the world to me. Nellie Bowles is such a person as she describes how and when she began to see things differently. It's a cautionary tale of how far off track things can become.

Nellie Nails It!

You need look no further than the arrogant, condescending, snarky review of this book by the New York Times on May 19 to see that this book has struck a nerve...struck a nerve? More like beat over the heads the holier-than-thou cult that the Progressive movement has become. Like the author, I've spent my entire adult life aligned with the left - hell, I've been a Democrat since I was a 4 year old in a parade for JFK! But the inmates have taken over the asylum. With incisive wit and pointed prose Ms. Bowles skewers the excesses of today's far Left - the language police, the gender Gestapo, the various cancellation Mafiosi. She also calls out the failure of the mainstream press to honestly report the excesses of 2020 - the encampments, the crime, the drug overdoses, the deaths at the hands of the "occupiers". Writing this review as the pro-Hamas protests continue on college campuses: advocating anti-semitism, terrorism, and kidnapping.

Brilliant. Honest. Painful.

This book needs to be required reading / listening for anyone working in news media right now and in the future. I work at another national news organization and we are STILL making some of the mistakes when taking about so many of the issues that Nellie addresses head on and explains with facts. We have to do better. Hopefully we can get our industry back on track… and stop further perpetuating the hateful divide in our country. Bravo, Nellie!

Honesty and clarity. Learned a lot that I was unaware of. Hopefully, this book will be read/listened to and considered by many.

REFRESHING!!!!

Ms Bowles scripts an easy yet fun description of the weird world of the progressive cult. As a moderate/conservative liberal swing voter it was delightful to learn that my understandings towards cancel culture, antifa, criminal justice reform, homelessness and everyone who suffered through a miserable “white fragility” book group have been confirmed. I’m buying this book for several friends.