It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
By: Dale Beran
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An insider's history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Do…
Want to Read $ 11.99"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, Karl Marx wrote, correcting Hegel. But what's next? There's no word for a farce of a farce."-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, Karl Marx wrote, correcting Hegel. But what's next? There's no word for a farce of a farce."-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"For this reason, entering into the cool, safe bubble of Otakon, where adolescents attempted to commune with the comforting kids' fantasy on the other side of the screen felt slightly unsettling to me, though I couldn't put my finger on why."-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"For this reason, entering into the cool, safe bubble of Otakon, where adolescents attempted to commune with the comforting kids' fantasy on the other side of the screen felt slightly unsettling to me, though I couldn't put my finger on why."-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
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1. The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2) (The Lost World Series)
By: John H. Walton
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In this astute mix of cultural critique and biblical studies, John H. Walton presents and defends t… read more
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"The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence."-John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2) (The Lost World Series)
"God has given us a privileged role in the functioning of his cosmic temple. He has tailored the world to our needs, not to his (for he has no needs). It is his place, but it is designed for us and we…"-John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2) (The Lost World Series)
"when we adopt the biblical perspective of the cosmic temple, it is no longer possible to look at the world (or space) in secular terms. It is not ours to exploit. We do not have natural resources, we…"-John H. Walton, The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate (Volume 2) (The Lost World Series)
2. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
By: Angela Nagle
4.08
Format: 88 pages, ebook
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle … read more
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4. The Men Who Stare at Goats
By: Jon Ronson
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more
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5. Them: Adventures with Extremists
By: Jon Ronson
4.27
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industryand So Yo… read more
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6. Memes in Digital Culture
By: None
4.20
Format: None pages, Paperback
In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed mo… read more
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7. Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
With the current rise of antisemitism, this important book looks at how one Jewish family —the Roth… read more
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- politics
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8. Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
By: Talia Lavin
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Talia Lavin is every skinhead’s worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, sma… read more
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"We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudg…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"One you start gazing into the abyss of the far right, pretty soon it turns its gaze right back on you. And its gaze is a fearsome thing, a twisted thing, one full of boredom and anger that have calci…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"The worst people are still people; their humanity is impossible to disregard, but it does not absolve them. If anything, it makes their choices more abhorrent, surrounded, as they are, by the banalit…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
"Despite the fact that [...] 71% of murders related to extremism in the United States between 2008 and 2017 were committed by members of far-right or white-supremacist movements, federal authorities h…"-Talia Lavin, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
9. Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat
By: Derek Beres
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Conspirituality takes a deep dive into the troubling phenomenon of influencers who have curdled New… read more
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10. The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything
By: Mike Rothschild
3.84
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the real story of QAnon—what it is, what it means, and where it goes. And be warned—none of… read more
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11. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
By: Will Sommer
4.09
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more
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12. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
By: Abraham Riesman
3.75
Format: 464 pages, ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Riveting, essential reading.” —Rick Perlstein, author of Reaganl… read more
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13. Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
By: Michael Wolff
3.88
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
“We won. Won in a landslide. This was a landslide.”―President Donald J. Trump, January 6, 2021We al… read more
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14. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet
By: Taylor Lorenz
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more
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15. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
By: Kyle Chayka
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more
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16. A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
By: Philip Rucker
4.10
Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition
The definitive insider narrative and the most fully characterised account yet of the chaos, scandal… read more
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17. After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
By: Ben Rhodes
4.21
Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition
Why is democracy so threatened in America and around the world? And what can we do about it? A form… read more
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18. Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything
By: Kelly Weill
3.79
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Since 2015, there has been a spectacular boom in a centuries-old delusion: that the earth is flat. … read more
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19. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation
By: Andrew Marantz
4.21
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a rising star at The New Yorker, a deeply immersive chronicle of how the optimistic entreprene… read more
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20. It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
By: Dale Beran
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An insider's history of the website at the end of the world, which burst into politics and memed Do… read more
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"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, Karl Marx wrote, correcting Hegel. But what's next? There's no word for a farce of a farce."-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"For this reason, entering into the cool, safe bubble of Otakon, where adolescents attempted to commune with the comforting kids' fantasy on the other side of the screen felt slightly unsettling to me…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"Were the future leaders of the United States who had won coveted tickets to the highest echelons of the neoliberal meritocracy — the ones who were supposed to take over the newspapers, high political…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
"This was, of course, the function of art, to reveal the nuances of imagination hidden under shame. But it was also art sans art, as 4chan negated everything, even itself. Art born from some insistent…"-Dale Beran, It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
21. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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