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No is not enough : defeating the new shock politics / Naomi Klein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London: Allen Lane, 2017.Description: 273 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780241320884
  • 0241320887
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.484 KLE
Contents:
Part I. How we got here: rise of the superbrands. How Trump won by becoming the ultimate brand ; The first family of brands ; The Mar-a-Lago hunger games -- Part II. Where we are now: climate of inequality. The climate clock strikes midnight ; The grabber-in-chief ; Politics hates a vacuum ; Learn to love economic populism -- Part III. How it could get worse: the shocks to come. Masters of disaster: doing an end run around democracy ; The toxic to-do list: what to expect when you are expecting a crisis -- Part IV. How things could get better. When the shock doctrine backfires ; When no was not enough ; Lessons from Standing Rock: daring to dream ; A time to leap: because small steps won\'t cut it -- Conclusion. The caring majority within reach -- Postscript: The leap manifesto.
Summary: Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? What went wrong, and what can we do about it? Naomi Klein--scourge of brand bullies, disaster capitalists and climate liars--shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting worse and how, if we keep our heads, we can seize the opportunity to make it better. She reveals how Trump is not a freakish aberration, but an extension of the most powerful trends of the last century: celebrity and CEO-worship, Vegas and Guantanamo, soft porn and hard power, fake news and vulture bankers, all rolled into one. His election was not a peaceful transit but a corporate takeover, by people who\'ve knowingly harmed people, societies and our planet. Now their deliberate shock tactics are generating wave after wave of crises, designed to disorientate us and stop us fighting back. This book is the toolkit for shock resistance, giving all of us what we need (including tips such as \'how to jam the brand\' and \'kill your inner Trump\') to win the argument and right their wrongs. Don\'t let them get away with it-

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

'Trump, as extreme as he is, is less an aberration than a logical conclusion - a pastiche of pretty much all the worst and most dangerous trends of the past half century. A one-man megabrand, with wife and children as spin-off brands . . . '

Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? Naomi Klein, internationally acclaimed journalist, activist and bestselling author, shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we can make things better. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, how Trump's election was not a peaceful transition, but a corporate takeover, one using deliberate shock tactics to generate wave after wave of crises and force through radical policies that will destroy people, the environment, the economy and national security. This book is the toolkit for shock resistance, showing all of us how we can break Trump's spell and win the world we need. Don't let them get away with it.

Part I. How we got here: rise of the superbrands. How Trump won by becoming the ultimate brand ; The first family of brands ; The Mar-a-Lago hunger games -- Part II. Where we are now: climate of inequality. The climate clock strikes midnight ; The grabber-in-chief ; Politics hates a vacuum ; Learn to love economic populism -- Part III. How it could get worse: the shocks to come. Masters of disaster: doing an end run around democracy ; The toxic to-do list: what to expect when you are expecting a crisis -- Part IV. How things could get better. When the shock doctrine backfires ; When no was not enough ; Lessons from Standing Rock: daring to dream ; A time to leap: because small steps won\'t cut it -- Conclusion. The caring majority within reach -- Postscript: The leap manifesto.

Remember when it all seemed to be getting better? Before Trump happened? What went wrong, and what can we do about it? Naomi Klein--scourge of brand bullies, disaster capitalists and climate liars--shows us how we got to this surreal and dangerous place, how to stop it getting worse and how, if we keep our heads, we can seize the opportunity to make it better. She reveals how Trump is not a freakish aberration, but an extension of the most powerful trends of the last century: celebrity and CEO-worship, Vegas and Guantanamo, soft porn and hard power, fake news and vulture bankers, all rolled into one. His election was not a peaceful transit but a corporate takeover, by people who\'ve knowingly harmed people, societies and our planet. Now their deliberate shock tactics are generating wave after wave of crises, designed to disorientate us and stop us fighting back. This book is the toolkit for shock resistance, giving all of us what we need (including tips such as \'how to jam the brand\' and \'kill your inner Trump\') to win the argument and right their wrongs. Don\'t let them get away with it-

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Naomi Klein was born in Montreal, Canada on May 8, 1970. She attended the University of Toronto and began writing there for the student newspaper, The Varsity. Klein was offered a series of editorial jobs in newspapers and magazines and this prevented her from getting a final degree from the university. She worked for The Toronto Globe and Mail and This Magazine.

She is an author and social activist, who is known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization. Her books include No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. She received the 2014 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate.

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