Timothy Shenk at Book Culture
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
7:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Book Culture at 112th St
A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today
Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Campaigns have gone high-tech, hoping to use big data and sophisticated mathematical models to turn electioneering into a science. Meanwhile, a permanent class of political consultants has emerged, with teams of pollsters, message gurus, and field operatives. Taken together, all this amounts to a silent revolution that has transformed politics across much of the globe. Left Adrift is about that battle—and the world it has made.
“If the Trump Era were a television series like Game of Thrones, Left Adrift would be the fascinating prequel. Timothy Shenk has written a riveting portrait of the moment when the subterranean plates of American politics began to shift. No one else has told this story, and it’s compelling, entertaining, and important.”
—Stuart Stevens, political consultant and author of It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
A rivalry that remade the political world as we know it today Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Campaigns have gone high-tech, hoping to use big data and sophisticated mathematical models to turn electioneering into a science. Meanwhile, a permanent class of political consultants has emerged, with teams of pollsters,… more
Book Culture at 112th St