{"product_id":"the-witches-are-coming-9780316449861","title":"The Witches Are Coming","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series \u003ci\u003eShrill\u003c\/i\u003e exposes misogyny in the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e#MeToo era.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is a witch hunt. We're witches, and we're hunting you.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In \u003ci\u003eThe Witches \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAre Coming\u003c\/i\u003e, firebrand author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series \u003ci\u003eShrill\u003c\/i\u003e, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics-and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWest writes, \"We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form--like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'--white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe cannot understand how we got here'--how the land of the free became Trump's America--without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hachette Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/21\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316449861\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Lindy West","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40843802411189,"sku":"9780316449861","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0d2c89a1-2c0b-4c5e-8e1f-d78fcce64a56.jpg?v=1629810026","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-witches-are-coming-9780316449861","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}