?This book is the essential guide for our era of confusion and incoherence as moral revolutionaries tear down statues, institutions, and widely held values. With clear thinking and gripping storytelling, Williams explains how how a minority of the elites in Britain and America were able to intimidate the rest of the elites into silence or complicity, imposing a "revolution from above" that is anti-democratic and cruel. Anyone who wants to restore sanity, beauty, or simple humanity to our public life should read How Woke Won?. --Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University Stern School of Business, author of The Righteous Mind, Co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind.?Joanna Williams is one of Britain's sharpest and most eloquent writers on the ?woke? phenomenon. In How Woke Won, she fearlessly and forensically exposes how the ?woke? culture war has exploded into our schools, workplaces, media and politics ? and why we need to fight back against this very real threat to our values and our freedoms?. --Julia Hartley-Brewer, journalist and talkRADIO presenter?Joanna Williams has written a highly readable and gripping anatomy of the Woke phenomenon which is poisoning our intellectual, social and political life. As she shows, it has gained a grip over many public institutions from primary schools to universities, the civil service, and cultural institutions. She tells the story of how this has happened, and explains why: because it empowers the elite that runs a large part of our lives, and want to run more. It's a worrying story of intimidation and moral blackmail, but she holds out the hope that its victory need not be permanent. In this brave and lucid book, she has done us a great service?. --Robert Tombs, Emeritus Professor of French History, The University of Cambridge and author of The English and Their History Joanna Williams is a columnist for spiked and writes regularly for the Spectator and The Times. She also regularly appears on the BBC, Sky News, talkRADIO and GB News. Williams taught at the University of Kent for over 10 years and has extensive experience in think-tanks. She is the founder and director of Cieo, a new think-tank for a new political era. Her previous books include Women vs Feminism (Emerald, 2017), Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity (Palgrave, 2016) and Consuming Higher Education (Bloomsbury, 2012).