The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American
Future Hardcover – January 4, 2022
by Stephen Marche (Author)
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The United States is coming to an end. The only
question is how.
“Should be
required reading for anyone interested in preserving our 246-year experiment in
self-government.” —The New York Times Book Review * “Well researched and
eloquently presented.” —The Atlantic * “It’s not a matter of if but when: A
civil war is on the way...In a time of torment, this is a book well worth
reading.” —Kirkus Reviews
In this
deeply researched work of speculative nonfiction that reads like Ezra Klein’s
Why We’re Polarized crossed with David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth,
a celebrated journalist takes a fiercely divided America and imagines five
chilling scenarios that lead to its collapse, based on in-depth interviews with
experts of all kinds.
On a small
two-lane bridge in a rural county that loathes the federal government, the US
Army uses lethal force to end a standoff with hard-right anti-government
patriots. Inside an ordinary diner, a disaffected young man with a handgun
takes aim at the American president stepping in for an impromptu photo-op, and
a bullet splits the hyper-partisan country into violently opposed mourners and
revelers. In New York City, a Category 2 hurricane plunges entire neighborhoods
underwater and creates millions of refugees overnight—a blow that comes on the
heels of a financial crash and years of catastrophic droughts— and tips America
over the edge into ruin.
These
nightmarish scenarios are just three of the five possibilities most likely to
spark devastating chaos in the United States that are brought to life in The
Next Civil War, a chilling and deeply researched work of speculative
nonfiction. Drawing upon sophisticated predictive models and nearly two hundred
interviews with experts—civil war scholars, military leaders, law enforcement
officials, secret service agents, agricultural specialists, environmentalists,
war historians, and political scientists—journalist Stephen Marche predicts the
terrifying future collapse that so many of us do not want to see unfolding in
front of our eyes. Marche has spoken with soldiers and counterinsurgency
experts about what it would take to control the population of the United
States, and the battle plans for the next civil war have already been drawn up.
Not by novelists, but by colonels.
No matter
your political leaning, most of us can sense that America is barreling toward
catastrophe—of one kind or another. Relevant and revelatory, The Next Civil War
plainly breaks down the looming threats to America and is a must-read for
anyone concerned about the future of its people, its land, and its government.
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