The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

An instant New York Times best seller.One of America’s finest reporters and essayists explores the powerful currents beneath the roiled waters of a nation coming apart.An unmatched guide to the religious dimensions of American politics, Jeff Sharlet journeys into corners of our national psyche where others fear to tread.The Undertow is both inquiry and meditation, an attempt to understand how, over the last decade, reaction has morphed into delusion, social division into distrust, distrust into paranoia, and hatred into fantasies—sometimes realities—of violence.