Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of  George Bush's America in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons  in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an  American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in  Congress, and falling into the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Matt  discovered in his travels across the country that the resilient blue  state/red state narrative of American politics had become irrelevant. A  large and growing chunk of the American population was so turned off -  or radicalized - by electoral chicanery, a spineless news media, and the  increasingly blatant lies from our leaders ("they hate us for our  freedom") that they abandoned the political mainstream altogether. They  joined what he calls "The Great Derangement."

Taibbi tells the  story of this new American madness by inserting himself into four  defining American subcultures: The Military, where he finds himself  mired in the grotesque black comedy of the American occupation of Iraq;  The System, where he follows the money-slicked path of legislation in  Congress; The Resistance, where he doubles as chief public antagonist  and undercover member of the passionately bonkers 9/11 Truth Movement;  and The Church, where he infiltrates a politically influential  apocalyptic mega-ministry in Texas and enters the lives of its desperate  congregants.

Together these four interwoven adventures paint a  portrait of a nation dangerously out of touch with reality and  desperately searching for answers in all the wrong places.

Funny, smart, and a little bit heartbreaking, The Great Derangement is an audaciously reported, sobering, and illuminating portrait of America at the end of the Bush era.