When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Bryant, Nick

When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present

'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the...
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When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Bryant, Nick

When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present

¥7,975

When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present

¥7,975
Author: Nick Bryant
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

'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.

Author: Nick Bryant
Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
Published: 03/09/2021
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781472985484


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/04/2021
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2021

About the Author
Nick Bryant is one of the BBC's most senior and highly respected foreign correspondents. He has been posted in Washington, South Asia, Australia and, most recently, New York. He has written for The Economist and the New Statesman and his BBC blogs often receive millions of views. He is the author of The Bystander: John F. Kennedy and the Struggle for Black Equality, Confessions from Correspondentland and The Rise and Fall of Australia. Nick studied history at Cambridge, and has a doctorate in American history from Oxford. He lives in New York with his wife and children.


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