{"product_id":"three-or-more-is-a-jelani-cobb-9780593978207","title":"Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-Present","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most important figures in American journalism -- acclaimed historian, Pulitzer finalist, staff writer at the New Yorker, and dean of Columbia Journalism School--a devastatingly insightful collection of published and original work that paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of our last turbulent decade.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat just happened? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the moment Trayvon Martin's senseless murder initiated the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, America has been convulsed by the new social movements--around guns, gender violence, sexual harrassment, race, policing, and on and on--and an equally powerful backlash. Jelani Cobb has been reporting and commenting on these changes--sometimes from the frontlines of places like Ferguson and Charleston, other times from a more studied remove, where he applies his gifts as a critic and background as a historian to penetrate the meaning of it all. He has written profiles of some of the key figures of the era--from directors and comedians to activists and politicians--and written on some of great cultural artifacts--film, television, and music. Through this shifting lens, he's captured the crises, the movements, and absurdity of an era--and helped readers understand what might be coming next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs in this country's other great moments of turbulence, this has been an era of democratic expansion and contraction, the latest in a series of battles over what it means to be an American. Cobb strings this collection together with original work--the original pieces provide the connective tissue that helps readers see these powerful short dispatches as a cohesive, epic narrative of one of the most consequential, but hard to understand, eras in American history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jelani Cobb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 059397820X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593978207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e One World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.13w x 0.81d","brand":"Jelani Cobb","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46806912860415,"sku":"9780593978207","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1475dc6e-d657-4e1e-9d11-0426d4514aa8.jpg?v=1745378064","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/three-or-more-is-a-jelani-cobb-9780593978207","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}