Thank You, Anarchy could be a great read for anyone interested in learning more about the Occupy Wall Street movement from an insider's perspective. Nathan Schneider provides an up-close and personal account of the movement's origins and chronicles the moments that shaped it into a global phenomenon. The book vividly captures the voices, encounters, and beliefs that powered the movement, highlighting its most radical impulses that shook millions out of a failed tedium and into fighting for a better kind of future. Overall, Thank You, Anarchy is a compelling study of the spirit that drove the watershed movement, opening up new social and political possibilities, and registering a chilling indictment of the status quo.

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Thank You, Anarchy is an up-close, inside account of Occupy Wall Street’s first year in New York City, written by one of the first reporters to cover the phenomenon. Nathan Schneider chronicles the origins and explosive development of the Occupy movement through the eyes of the organizers who tried to give shape to an uprising always just beyond their control. Capturing the voices, encounters, and beliefs that powered the movement, Schneider brings to life the General Assembly meetings, the chaotic marches, the split-second decisions, and the moments of doubt as Occupy swelled from a hashtag online into a global phenomenon.A compelling study of the spirit that drove this watershed movement, Thank You, Anarchy vividly documents how the Occupy experience opened new social and political possibilities and registered a chilling indictment of the status quo. It was the movement’s most radical impulses, this account shows, that shook millions out of a failed tedium and into imagining, and fighting for, a better kind of future.

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