Author & host of MSNBC’s critically acclaimed ‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ comes to the Riverside for a very special evening of conversation dealing with politics and world issues. Each ticket includes an autographed copy of Maddow’s new book ‘Drift’.
RACHEL MADDOW hosts MSNBC’s critically acclaimed The Rachel Maddow Show. The most successful show launch in MSNBC history, The Rachel Maddow Showwas named one of the top shows of the decade by the Washington Post in 2009. Previously, Maddow had been an MSNBC political analyst and regular guest host for Countdown. She first gained national prominence as a host on Air America Radio, where she worked from its inception in 2004.
There’s a war going on, argues Rachel Maddow, but it’s not the one in Afghanistan. Rather, it’s a battle between the priorities of civilian life and of the war machine, and right now the national security sector is winning—leaving the United States less strong and secure. Speaking to us in the fiercely honest, witty, piercingly intelligent voice we know from her on-air commentary, Maddow shows how deeply militarized our culture has become—how the role of the national security sector has shape-shifted and grown over the past century to the point of being financially unsustainable and confused in mission.
How did this come to seem normal? From the Vietnam War through the first Gulf War, Bosnia, and on to the global “War on Terror,” Drift explores the root causes—from Reagan’s “gunslinging” presidency to the rise of executive authority to the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars—giving readers a facts-on-the-ground understanding of the dangers of our approach. Ultimately, this book is a clarion call to stop allowing the priorities of national security to crowd out other types of American power.
Brilliant, lacerating, and provocative, Drift belongs on the shelf beside such bestsellers as What’s the Matter with Kansas?, Griftopia, and The Shock Doctrine.
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