Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

by Andy Ngo

Overview

In this #1 national bestseller, a journalist who's been attacked by Antifa writes a deeply researched and reported account of the group's history and tactics.

When Andy Ngo was attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of 2019, most people assumed it was an isolated incident. But those who'd been following Ngo's reporting in outlets like the New York Post and Quillette knew that the attack was only the latest in a long line of crimes perpetrated by Antifa.

In Unmasked, Andy Ngo tells the story of this violent extremist movement from the very beginning. He includes interviews with former followers of the group, people who've been attacked by them, and incorporates stories from his own life. This book contains a trove of documents obtained by the author, published for the first time ever.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781546059585
Publisher:	Center Street
Publication date:	02/02/2021
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	550,619
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Andy Cuong Ngo is an American journalist best known for covering protests in Portland, Oregon. He has written columns in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, National Review, and others. His series for the New York Post on Portland's "fake hate crime" industry became a viral sensation. He drew national attention when he was attacked by Antifa on the streets of Portland in the summer of 2019. Until recently, he was an editor for Quillette.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Insurgency 11

2 The World's Newest Nation 29

3 Portland 51

4 Rose City Antifa 79

5 Origin Story 97

6 American Mutation 111

7 Black Lives Matter 129

8 Violence 143

9 Deadly Violence 165

10 Doxing 191

11 The "Democratic" Route 199

12 Information Warfare and Propaganda 209

Epilogue 223

Afterword 241

Endnotes 259

Sources 279

Acknowledgments 315

Index 317

About the Author 329

Editorial Reviews

2021-02-23
An overwrought exposé on the supposed lurking menace that is antifa.

The framing event for Ngo’s narrative, about which readers are frequently reminded, is a moment when, in June 2019, he was attacked and beaten at a demonstration in Portland, Oregon. “I was nearly killed by a violent mob,” he claims. “At no point did the police intervene to help.” His attackers, he concludes, must have been members of the anti-fascist, or antifa, movement—and never mind that in several well-documented events, the perpetrators of violent acts have been right-wing extremists disguising themselves as fellow travelers. Ngo is correct when he deems the organization to be “a relatively small group of committed radicals.” After muddying the waters to shift blame away from the Minneapolis police for their killing of George Floyd Jr. and dismissing the thought that the heavily armed, proudly violent boogaloo movement has anything to do with the far right, Ngo goes still farther out onto a logical limb when he urges that the progressive forces of education, health care, government, and the media are allies of the black-masked anarchists. According to the author, there are “whole networks of writers and so-called journalists who intentionally spread pro-antifa messaging.” Though he professes not to support the former president’s view that the press is the enemy of the people, he demurs, “but one can see the basis for that sentiment when looking at how transparently extreme ideologues are presented as the arbiters of truth.” Those extreme ideologues, the proceedings make plain, include anyone who questions Ngo’s account of events, which is right at home with the collected works of Dinesh D’Souza and Michelle Malkin. His conclusion seems particularly untimely given the events of Jan. 6, 2021. He argues that antifa will yield naught but “ash, blood, and feces-stained rubble,” when of course that would better describe what the mob of right-wing extremists left behind at the U.S. Capitol.

A book that belongs in any QAnon subscriber’s collection.

Kirkus Reviews

I can honestly say that no book has changed my life quite like this one.”—Winston Marshall, former guitarist of Mumford & Sons

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