The Coming Storm: A Journey into the Heart of the Conspiracy Machine
Gabriel Gatehouse
Is this how democracy dies? Based on his smash hit podcast, The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse's brilliant exploration of the roots of Q Anon and the rise of the extreme right in the US. It's a story that reaches back decades, showing how a dark fantasy embedded itself in the American consciousness, threatening to derail its democracy - and it continues to unfold today. Gatehouse's riveting book takes you down a rabbit hole - one that both the US as a nation and he as a journalist fell through - to unpack an epochal shift in political culture that starts in the earliest years of the Clinton administration and reaches a crescendo on 6 January 2021 with the storming of the US Capitol. But that event wasn't the wild finale of a chaotic Trump presidency many hoped for - it was only the beginning.
Award History
0 wins · 1 total
| Award | Year | Result | Category / Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orwell Prize: Political Writing | 2025 | Shortlist | Secondary source |
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The roots of Q Anon and the rise of the extreme right threaten to derail US democracy, and the process begins in the earliest years of the Clinton administration and continues beyond January 6, 2021.
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