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A harrowing tale of how polarization threatened to break apart two American communities and how one found a way back while the other splintered.. Donald Trump's November 2016 electoral victory was the beginning of four years of demagogy, presidential name-calling, and - ten months into a pandemic - an incitement to violence that led a mob of thousands to descend on the Capitol in Washington, DC. Fueled by suspicion, conspiracy, and bigotry, a faction of Americans had decided to seize control. But the biggest effect of this right-wing wave may not have been on our national politics, but on the local governments of communities around the country. In Chaos Comes Calling, Sasha Abramsky investigates the empowerment of the far-right over the past few years, stoked by the Trump presidency and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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I was born and raised in the UK, studied politics, philosophy and economics at Balliol College, Oxford, and moved to the US in my early 20s. I have lived and worked in London, New York, and in California. My writings have been published in the Nation magazine, the New Yorker online, the New York Times, Atlantic, Mother Jones, Truthout, Sacramento Magazine, Slate, Salon, and many other publications in the US. In the UK I have written for a number of publications, including the Guardian, the Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, and the New Statesman.Over the past twenty years, I have focused mainly on social justice themes, though have also written book reviews, travel essays, articles on sports and on music, and other areas of life that pique my interest. In addition to the articles that I write, I am also the author of nine books, ranging from books on criminal justice to a memoir about my grandparents, through to my most recent book, a biography of the sportswoman Lottie Dod, titled "Little Wonder: The Fabulous Story of Lottie Dod, the World's First Female Sports Superstar.I live in Sacramento with my wife and kids, and teach writing part-time at the University of California at Davis. When I am not writing, I am traveling -- I have visited somewhere in the region of 50 countries over the years -- playing tennis, skiing, reading, or sitting at my piano playing music.
