Doppelganger

A Trip into the Mirror World

416 pages

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2023 by Penguin Books, Limited.

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978-0-241-62131-8
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Naomi Klein is one of the most important thinkers of our time, whether she is applying her talents to film, journalism, or long-form writing. Her ability to pull together often seemingly disparate threads of analysis into a coherent, fluid whole is as erudite as it is insightful. Doppelganger covers a wide array of sociopolitical issues that threaten life as we know it in North America, weaving it all together through introspection on the concept of having a personal double. She has done a tremendous lot of study and legwork following what once was the far right, which has over the last decade become its new center. Klein's approachable synthesis of all that she's gleaned in that process is a gift to those of us who cannot stomach, say, hundreds of hours of Steve Bannon's War Room. Along the way the reader is offered new or reframed mental models that help …

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