Description
Blending investigative journalism, predictive analysis, and vivid speculative scenarios, this urgent examination explores how the United States could be driven toward widespread political violence and civil breakdown. Drawing on extensive interviews with military leaders, law-enforcement officials, historians, scientists, and political experts, it considers the destabilizing force of polarization alongside threats such as extremist militias, political violence, climate disasters, economic collapse, and resource scarcity. Rather than presenting a single forecast, the book traces several plausible paths toward national crisis and asks what social, institutional, and human costs might follow. It is both a warning about America’s escalating divisions and a searching inquiry into the conditions that make democratic stability so fragile.
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paperback
Simon & Schuster
Published Jan 1, 2022
256 pages
ISBN: 9781982123239
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First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Next Civil War by Stephen Marche.