Martin Gelin is a journalist and award-winning author of eight books on American politics and culture. Since 2011, he has been the U.S. Correspondent for Dagens Nyheter, a national newspaper in Sweden. He has written for The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Slate, The Guardian, Quartz, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Parliament Magazine, The Independent, The Prospect, Boston Review, The LA Review of Books, Granta Magazine and Harvard's Nieman Lab, among others. He has been interviewed by the BBC, CNN, NPR, Monocle, Quartz and The Times of India, and is a regular commentator on foreign affairs for Swedish TV and radio. His two recent books, The American Conservatives, and The Internet is Broken, were both finalists for the August Prize, Sweden's highest literary honor. He has also been awarded The Stockholm Prize and The Johan Hansson Prize for his books. His work has been translated to seven languages, including Chinese and French. He has lectured on history and politics at Columbia University, New York University, The University of Hong Kong and the Jaipur Literary Festival. Martin Gelin is the recipient of grants from the Axson Johnson Foundation, The Stieg Larsson Foundation, Institut Suedois, The Japan Foundation, The Swedish Authors Union, The Swedish Federation of Publicists and The Swedish Journalist Fund.
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"A magnetic depiction of racism in the United States. A classic." --G?ran Greider, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) "A spirited examination of the impact of racism on American history--including chapters of our national experience that have been all too often ignored." --Anne Nelson, author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right "A stunning illumination of American history." --Martin H?gglund, Yale University, author of This Life "It is knowledgeable, it is important, it is a shocking read." -- "Aftonbladet" "Just as Alexis de Tocqueville concluded in the 1830s that our dehumanization of Black people was incompatible with American virtues of freedom and liberty, Martin Gelin warns that we have not left that path This is not an optimistic book, but it is a hopeful one, and a good one." --Jason Stanford, author of Forget the Alamo "Martin Gelin has written an important book on race relations in the United States. I am impressed by his erudition and ability to synthesize academic research findings." --Dag Blanck, director of the Swedish Institute for North American Studies at Uppsala University "This is the book of the year." -- "Journalisten Magazine" "What a darkly marvelous book this is. It will be hard to find a more learned, more sympathetic, and more urgent examination of the imperiled democratic project known as the United States." --Joseph O'Neill, PEN/Faulkner Award Winning author, and contributor to the New York Review of Books