Nick Bryant

The Forever War

America's Unending Conflict with Itself - The History Behind Trump and Jd Vance

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Produktbeschreibung

From the author of When America Stopped Being Great, an insightful and urgent assessment of Americaâ s past, present and future â as a country which is forever at war with itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 159mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781399409308
• ISBN-10: 1399409301
• Artikelnr.: 67830394

Autorenporträt

Nick Bryant is the author of The Forever War: American's Unending Conflict with Itself and When America Stopped Being Great, a book that Joe Biden keeps in the Oval Office. He was formerly one of the BBC's most senior foreign correspondents, with postings in Washington DC, New York, South Asia and Australia. After covering the presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, he left the BBC in 2021, and now lives in Sydney with his wife and children. Nick studied history at Cambridge and has a doctorate in American history from Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: 'Democracy has prevailed' Introduction: Escaping Camelot 1 The
strange career of American democracy 2 From July 4th to January 6th 3 The
demagogic style in American politics 4 American authoritarianism 5 1776 and
all that... 6 America's constant curse 7 In Guns We Trust 8 Roe, Wade and
the Supremes 9 Toxic exceptionalism 10 The Two Americas Afterword: Goodbye
America Acknowledgements Notes Index Note on the Author Note on the Type

Rezensionen

Bryant writes with the familiarity of a journalist who has spent decades living in the US but also with the outsider's capacity for detachment and irony. This is the must-read book about America for 2024.