When America Stopped Being Great

A History of the Present

De: Nick Bryant

Narrado por: Ben Chapple

Duración: 12 h y 37 m

Resumen del Editor

The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the billionaire capitalised on the mistakes of his five predecessors, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and how also he became a beneficiary of a broken politics, an iniquitous economy, an ailing media, a facile culture, disruptive new technology and the creation of a modern-day presidency that elevated showmanship over statesmanship.

Not only are we starting to see the emergence of a post-American world, Bryant fears we are seeing the emergence of a post-American America.

The history of Trump's rise is also a history of America's fall - not only are we witnessing America's post-millennial decline, but also the country's disintegration.

©2020 Nick Bryant (P)2020 Penguin Random House Australia

Great exposition of US politics

Nick Bryant demonstrates why British journalism will always endure more than US journalism. Crisp succinct language versus hyperbole and overuse of adjectives.
Interestingly, it is the reader who is the most interesting: clearly he is Australian but pronounces vowels with a US taint. Was he forced to do this?

Great book, grating reader.

This is a thoughtful narrative about recent USA history. It threw light on many issues in the fascinating country.
The only drawback was the reading. The accent was a weird mixture of Australian and American. The pronunciation of some fairly basic words seem to escape him entirely.