Thomas Chatterton Williams

Summer of Our Discontent is the story of the dramatic and not inevitable turn in consciousness, encapsulated in the generation-defining twin calamities of the death of George Floyd and Covid-19. These events reshaped not just American life, but also the networked, Internet-driven monoculture that huge swaths of the planet increasingly cohabit. Any attempt to make sense of the recent past...

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Provides a way of understanding what happened to us that preserves the humanity of all parties and points the way forward toward renewal' Jonathan Haidt 'Makes moral and cultural sense of a profoundly perplexing time... This is an essential book' Yuval Levin Painting a clear and detailed picture of the ideas and events that have paved...