When America Stopped Being Great

Release on 2021-03-04 | by Nick Bryant

He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.' – Emily Maitlis 'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit who understands America' – Washington Post In When America Stopped ...

Author: Nick Bryant
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781472985491
Category: Political Science
Page: 384
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When America Stopped Being Great

'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.' – Emily Maitlis 'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit who understands America' – Washington Post In When America Stopped Being Great, veteran reporter and BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant reveals how America's decline paved the way for Donald Trump's rise, sowing division and leaving the country vulnerable to its greatest challenge of the modern era. Deftly sifting through almost four decades of American history, from post-Cold War optimism, through the scandal-wracked nineties and into the new millennium, Bryant unpacks the mistakes of past administrations, from Ronald Reagan's 'celebrity presidency' to Barack Obama's failure to adequately address income and racial inequality. He explains how the historical clues, unseen by many (including the media) paved the way for an outsider to take power and a country to slide towards disaster. As Bryant writes, 'rather than being an aberration, Trump's presidency marked the culmination of so much of what had been going wrong in the United States for decades – economically, racially, politically, culturally, technologically and constitutionally.' A personal elegy for an America lost, unafraid to criticise actors on both sides of the political divide, When America Stopped Being Great takes the long view, combining engaging storytelling with recent history to show how the country moved from the optimism of Reagan's 'Morning in America' to the darkness of Trump's 'American Carnage'. It concludes with some of the most dramatic events in recent memory, in an America torn apart by a bitterly polarised election, racial division, the national catastrophe of the coronavirus and the threat to US democracy evidenced by the storming of Capitol Hill.

Language: en
Pages: 384

When America Stopped Being Great

Authors: Nick Bryant

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-04 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Language: en
Pages: 110

America Never Stopped Being Great - 2020 US Elections to Do Reminder - 110 Pages - 6x9 Inches

Authors: Davis Cole

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-11-09 - Publisher:

America Never Stopped Being Great - 2020 US Elections To Do Reminder ✓ To Do List Reminder ✓ 110 Pages ✓ 6x9 inches ✓ Matte Cover USA map and Statue of liberty Cover

Language: en
Pages: 1100

The Handbook of Applied Communication Research

Authors: H. Dan O'Hair, Mary John O'Hair

Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines

Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-24 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

An authoritative survey of different contexts, methodologies, and theories of applied communication The field of Applied Communication Research (ACR) has made substantial progress over the past five decades in studying communication problems, and in making contributions to help solve them. Changes in society, human relationships, climate and the environment, and

Language: en
Pages: 304

Morbid Symptoms

Authors: Donald Sassoon

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-19 - Publisher: Verso

"In this geopolitical study, historian Donald Sassoon paints an unforgettable picture of our galloping descent into political barbarism, mixing blunt exposâe and classical references with an astonishing array of data"--

Language: en
Pages: 102

How I Stopped Being a Jew

Authors: Shlomo Sand

Categories: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Verso Trade

A man who grew up in Palestine with his Jewish mother discusses what he sees as the Israeli exploitation of the “chosen people” and what he calls the “holocaust industry” and searches for an alternate secular identity beyond Zionism.