Title:
When America stopped being great : a history of the present / Nick Bryant.
ISBN:
9781472985484
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Publication Information:
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Continuum, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
376 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
First published in 2020 in Australia by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books.
Contents:
Introduction: Face to face with "The Donald" -- It's morning again in America -- Goodbye to the greatest generation -- Bill and Newt -- The three convulsions -- No you can't -- The Donald Trump Show -- American carnage -- 2020 -- Conclusion: present at the destruction.
Summary:
From post-Cold War optimism through the scandal-wracked nineties and into the new millennium, Bryant explains how the historical clues paved the way for an outsider to take power and a country to slide towards disaster. He shows how the US moved from the optimism of Reagan's 'Morning in America' to the darkness of Trump's 'American Carnage'. In a country torn apart by a bitterly polarised election, racial division, coronavirus catastrophe, and the storming of Capitol Hill, Bryant provides a personal elegy for an America lost. -- adapted from jacket
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OCLC Number:
on1240806304
Availability:
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