A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight
of the American Empire

Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's
America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical
church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to
nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling into
the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Matt discovered in his travels across the country that the resilient blue
state/red state narrative of American politics had become irrelevant.
A large and growing chunk of the American population was so turned off -
or radicalized - by electoral chicanery, a spineless news media, and the
increasingly blatant lies from our leaders ("they hate us for our freedom")
that they abandoned the political mainstream altogether. They joined what
he calls "The Great Derangement."

Taibbi tells the story of this new American madness by inserting himself
into four defining American subcultures: The Military, where he finds
himself mired in the grotesque black comedy of the American occupation of
Iraq; The System, where he follows the money-slicked path of legislation
in Congress; The Resistance, where he doubles as chief public antagonist
and undercover member of the passionately bonkers 9/11 Truth Movement;
and The Church, where he infiltrates a politically influential apocalyptic
mega-ministry in Texas and enters the lives of its desperate congregants.

Together these four interwoven adventures paint a portrait of a nation
dangerously out of touch with reality and desperately searching for
answers in all the wrong places.

Funny, smart, and a little bit heartbreaking, The Great Derangement is
an audaciously reported, sobering, and illuminating portrait of America
at the end of the Bush era.

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