{"product_id":"three-or-more-is-a-riot-notes-on-how-we-got-here-2012-2025-9780593978207","title":"Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the definitive journalists of this era--acclaimed historian, Pulitzer Prize finalist, staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e and Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism--comes a kaleidoscopic, real-time portrait of the turbulent past decade.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat just happened? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the moment that Trayvon Martin's senseless murder initiated the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, America has been convulsed by new social movements--around guns, gender violence, sexual harrassment, race, policing, and on and on--and an equally powerful backlash that abetted the rise of the MAGA movement. In this punchy, powerful collection of dispatches, mostly published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e Jelani Cobb pulls the signal from the noise of this chaotic era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCobb's work as a reporter takes readers to the front lines of sometimes violent conflict, and he uses his gifts as a critic and historian to crack open the meaning of it all. Through a stunning mélange of narrative journalism, criticism, and penetrating profiles, Cobb's writing captures the crises, characters, movements, and art of an era--and helps readers understand what might be coming next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCobb has added new material to this collection--retrospective pieces that bring these stories up-to-date and tie them together, shaping these powerful short dispatches into a cohesive, epic narrative of one of the most consequential periods in recent American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJelani Cobb \u003c\/b\u003eis the current Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalim. He is a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, author of several books including \u003ci\u003eThe Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTo the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the editor\/co-editor on multiple volumes including \u003ci\u003eThe Matter of Black Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Kerner Commission Report\u003c\/i\u003e. Dr. Cobb is the producer\/co-producer on documentaries including \u003ci\u003eTHE RIOT REPORT\u003c\/i\u003e. He received the Peabody Award in 2020 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Commentary. Dr. Cobb currently serves on the Board of Directors of the American Journalism Project and the Board of Trustees of the New York Public Library.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51649195901202,"sku":"9780593978207","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c95d2439-ce02-431e-837a-ab555f8ba061.jpg?v=1759846017","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/three-or-more-is-a-riot-notes-on-how-we-got-here-2012-2025-9780593978207","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}