Naomi isn’t a terribly unusual name. There’s Naomi Watts. Naomi Campbell. Naomi Judd. There’s even a Naomi Biden—the president’s granddaughter. But it’s just unusual enough for the two most prominent Anglophone political writers with that name to be routinely confused for one another. And that confusion is the jumping-off point for Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World.
Klein is a high-profile leftist who writes doorstoppingly massive books about topics like corporate branding (No Logo), climate politics (This Changes Everything and On Fire), and neoliberal economics (The Shock Doctrine). She’s a serious person who’s guided by a humane and egalitarian worldview. She’s also a fanatically meticulous researcher.
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