{"product_id":"lindywestthewitchesarecoming","title":"Lindy West - The Witches Are Coming","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten by Lindy West. Themes include Social Science, Feminism \u0026amp; Feminist Theory, Political Science, Essays, History.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis Is A Witch Hunt.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWe're Witches,\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnd We're Hunting You.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\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.\"\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll books at Vastela are pre-owned. Condition varies from good to near-new. No book is sold in unacceptable condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vastela Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57809232691574,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/7144\/1981\/files\/9780316449885.jpg?v=1778084472","url":"https:\/\/www.vastelabooks.com\/products\/lindywestthewitchesarecoming","provider":"Vastela Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}