For the past thirty-five years, Greil Marcus has applied his unmatched critical apparatus to music, television, radio, politics, advertisements, and happenstance street encounters. This book is a collection of hundreds of items from the crisscrossing spectrum of culture and politics throughout the convulsive past five years of American life.

Greil Marcus is the author of many books, from Mystery Train (1975) to Under the Red White and Blue (2020). He most recently taught "The Age of Noir" at Berkeley. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of A New Literary History of America. He lives in Oakland.