The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War - Hardcover

by Jeff Sharlet (Author)An Instant New York Times Bestseller A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Nonfiction One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books One of& The New Republic's Best Books One of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart "[The Undertow] is a foreboding drive through the backroads of the country’s rising militancy. From campy Trump rallies and a memorial service for the January 6 insurrectionist Ashli Babbitt to a televangelist’s church in Miami and a self-declared prophet in Omaha, Sharlet takes a hard, unwavering look at the nation’s guns-and-Bibles underbelly." - James Sullivan, Boston Globe "[Sharlet] may be unusually hopeful for an author invoking civil war in his subtitle, but he is not deluded.… A dark travelogue of a nation of ‘simmering violence’ in which QAnon-influenced rabbit-holers stalk perceived enemies, often without making headlines.… He wants reade