A Death on W Street The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy

by Kroll, Andy

• ISBN13: 9781541751149
• ISBN10: 1541751140
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781541751156
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-09-06
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Summary

Named one of Mother Jones' BOOKS WE NEEDED IN 2022
Named one of CrimeReads' BEST NEW TRUE CRIME BOOKS OUT NOW

 A true-crime story for the post-truth era
 
In the early hours of July 10, 2016, gunshots rang out and a young man lay fatally wounded on a quiet Washington, DC, street. But who killed Seth Rich? When he was buried in his hometown, his rabbi declared: “There are no answers for a young man gunned down in the prime of his life.” The rabbi was wrong. There were in fact many answers, way too many.

In the absence of an arrest, a howling mob filled the void. Wild speculation and fantastical theories surfaced on social media and gained traction thanks to a high-level cast of provocateurs. But it wasn’t until Fox News took the rumors from the fringes to the mainstream that Seth Rich’s life and death grew into something altogether unexpected—one of the foundational conspiracy theories of modern times.

A Death on W Street unravels this gripping saga of murder, madness, and political chicanery, one that would ensnare Hillary Clinton and Steve Bannon, a popular pizzeria in northwest DC and the most powerful voices in American media. It's the story of an idealistic twenty-seven-year-old political staffer who became a tragic victim of the culture wars, until his family decided that they had no choice but to defend his name and put an end to the cruel deceptions that surrounded his death. 
 
This is the definitive story of Seth Rich, of those who tried to weaponize his memory in a war of words unlike any other, and of one family’s crusade to protect the truth against all odds. 

Author Biography

Andy Kroll is the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Rolling Stone where he covers Trump, the White House, Congress and all things American politics. He has written for Mother Jones, National Journal, and The California Sunday Magazine, and The New Republic. The Society of Professional Journalists-NorCal named him its outstanding emerging journalist for 2012, and his money-in-politics reporting was cited as part of Mother Jones' 2013 Izzy Award awarded by Ithaca College.