Sasha Abramsky

Jumping at Shadows: The Triumph of Fear and the End of the American Dream

Nation Books

In Jumping at Shadows, New York Magazine and Rolling Stone writer, Sasha Abramsky’ provides searing account of America’s most dangerous epidemic: irrational fear. Taking readers on a dramatic journey through a divided nation, where everything from immigration to gun control has become fodder for fearmongers and conspiracists, he delivers an eye-popping analysis of our misconceptions about risk and threats. Abramsky is the author or The American Way of Poverty, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and The House of Twenty Thousand Books.