American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us
- ISBN-10
- 178873727X
- ISBN-13
- 9781788737272
- Series
- American Breakdown
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 192
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019-06-25
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Author
- David Bromwich
Description
American Breakdown is the brilliant political diary of one of America’s leading essayists, David Bromwich, whose work has drawn wide appreciation for its incisive portraits and accurate prognosis. From his analysis of the Cheney-Bush co-presidency, in which foreign policy was reduced to permanent war, and Barack Obama’s practice of reconciliation without truth, Bromwich chronicles the emergence of Donald Trump—the demagogue of a culture of corruption from which all traces of political interest and candour have dropped away. An unsparing account of the degradation of American democracy, the book leads off with a new introduction on the prospects for change during the new Democratic Congress.
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