The New Yorker''s award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, in a vivid eyewitness narrative of revelatory explanatory power.''This is a searing book, exquisitely reported, lyrically told, and so vivid it will make your heart stop-a dark journey into what ails America'' Patrick Radden KeefeOn the morning of January 6, a gallows was erected on the National Mall in Washington, D.CA little after noon, as thousands of Trump supporters marched past the structure, some paused to climb its wooden steps and take pictures of the US Capitol framed within an oval noose. Up ahead, the dull thud of stun grenades could be heard, accompanied by bright flashes.Several people carried Confederate flags. Others had Tasers, baseball bats, bear spray, and truncheons. ''They need help!'' a man shouted. ''It''s us versus the cops!'' No one seemed surprised by what was taking place. There was an eerie sense of inexorability