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A review by readthesparrow
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right by Matthew Dallek
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
3.5
Picked this up because I love the podcast Knowledge Fight and wanted to understand what the hosts meant when they mentioned Alex Jones' Bircher background.
Oh boy, do I know now.
The book itself, I would say, is actually 4 stars. If you want to understand why the Republican party is the way it is, you have to understand the JBS.
However, in terms of the audiobook version, there were very obvious cuts between takes that were distracting.
The beginning also began very quickly; it has been three months since I listened to the first chapter, so I might be misremembering, but I feel a chapter easing into the context rather than dropping directly into the beginnings of the movement would have been useful.
Oh boy, do I know now.
The book itself, I would say, is actually 4 stars. If you want to understand why the Republican party is the way it is, you have to understand the JBS.
However, in terms of the audiobook version, there were very obvious cuts between takes that were distracting.
The beginning also began very quickly; it has been three months since I listened to the first chapter, so I might be misremembering, but I feel a chapter easing into the context rather than dropping directly into the beginnings of the movement would have been useful.