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The MAGA diaries : my surreal adventures inside the right-wing (and how I got out) / Tina Nguyen.
"An explosive, first-person account chronicling the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career-and her education-on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine."-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781982189693 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: ix, 261 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prelude : start the show -- The young Claremonster -- Preserving the ideals of the American founding -- Right-wing summer camp -- The Daily Caller -- Exile in Frumland -- Escape from the conservative ghetto -- The new leaders council -- The lowest class -- The progressive snowflake power hour -- The year of the storm -- The road trip -- Feels bad, man -- The patriot academy -- Epilogue : tucker and me. |
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| Genre: | Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
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- Baker & Taylor
An acclaimed political journalist tells her story of loving and leaving the conservative movement (well before Trump), painting a shocking portrait of how they recruit, train and indoctrinate generations of young people in search of opportunity and shape them into leaders supporting the Republican party. - Baker & Taylor
"An explosive, first-person account chronicling the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career--and her education--on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine"-- - Simon and Schuster
This explosive âmust-read for anyone who cares about the future of our democracyâ (Brian Stelter, New York Times bestselling author) chronicles the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her careerâand her educationâon the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine.
Her very first job was working for a little-known journalist named Tucker Carlson. Sheâs chugged Mountain Dews with the first Breitbart writers, poured over conspiracy theories from COVID-19 deniers, and visited the apocalyptic Patriot Church deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. The right is now a MAGA cult. And Tina Nguyen knows because she was raised by it, back when it wasnât one.
In 2008, in the weeks leading up to the election of Barack Obama, Nguyen was a history-loving, politics-obsessed college student at Claremont McKenna College, drawn there by a boyfriendâand a research institute called the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom. Swept up by pro-America rhetoric and promises of a career in journalism, Nguyen was drawn into the world of right-wing student activism, and the early days of the movement now known as MAGA.
In The MAGA Diaries, she tells not only her story of loving and leaving the conservative movement but the history of the right wing, painting a shocking picture of how they recruit, train, and indoctrinate generations of young people and shape them into the influential leaders and the supporting cast of tomorrowâs Republican party. They are ruthless in building robust networks of power, even if it means demolishing entire civic institutions, from womenâs rights to fair electionsâand staging a coup when it doesnât work out.
In this âsobering, endlessly readable fly-on-the-wall account of creeping fascismâ (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Nguyen pulls back the curtain on the conservative machine, shining a light on the systematized on-ramp for young Republicans. These are the new leaders of the right, and itâs urgent we start paying attention.
