Timothy Shenk at Politics and Prose
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
7:00pm — 8:00pm ET
Politics and Prose
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.
“Timothy Shenk brings a vividness and emotion that makes Left Adrift much more than a political science treatise. I’d urge anyone who finds the politics of today perplexing—and don’t we all?—to read Left Adrift. 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
Politics and Prose