Gal Beckerman

 “A bravura work of scholarship and reporting, featuring amazing individuals and dramatic events from seventeenth-century France to Rome, Moscow, Cairo, and contemporary Minneapolis.”

— LOUIS MENAND, author of The Free World

A provocative, incisive look at the building of social movements—from the 1600s to the present—and how current technology is undermining them. Learn More →

“The moment for this book is now as we navigate this new era of virtual interactions and wonder how we got here and where we’re headed.”

— SUSAN ORLEAN, AUTHOR OF ON ANIMALS


“Rarely does a book give you a new way of looking at social change. This one does.”

— WALTER ISAACSON, AUTHOR OF THE CODE BREAKER

“A timely and stimulating take on how the fringe infiltrates the mainstream.”

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“What a beautiful and humane book.”

— THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF SELF-PORTRAIT IN BLACK AND WHITE

ABOUT


Gal Beckerman is the senior editor for books at The Atlantic.

A former editor at the New York Times Book Review, he is also the author of the widely acclaimed When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone, which won the National Jewish Book Award and the Sami Rohr Prize and was named a best book of the year by The New Yorker and The Washington Post.

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