Preppers

By Lynda King,

Book cover of Preppers: History and the Cultural Phenomenon

Book description

The word ‘prepper’ seems to have burst onto the scene within the last 10 years, and has increasingly become associated with “fringe” extremists. They have been labeled by some as “domestic terrorists.” But is prepping a new phenomenon? Or is it a manifestation of a growing collective psyche that has…

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1 author picked Preppers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I'll admit this recommendation may seem offbeat, but given my anxieties about catastrophe, I am weirdly drawn to the history of what is known as “prepping”: people who actively prepare for events, such as a plague, that threaten to take us back to a Stone Age style of living.

Lynda King, a freelance writer who’s active in her own community’s preparedness planning, offers a fascinating account of the people and groups who have built bomb shelters, stockpiled food, drugs, and weapons, and otherwise gotten ready for the end of the world. 

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