It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics Book

Mind blown! Polletta explores the use of storytelling and its devices in politics, protest, and the law, in order to tease out its many uses and abuses. Her book uses case study chapters to look at how stories mobilize people to political action, but also how they can reinforce assumptions based in existing power, gender, and racial structures. Once you get past the academic jargon, the book has so much to offer, especially at a time when we've come to understand how many evils a good story can cover up, even one with few words: "We're going to build a wall and Mexico is going to pay for it."