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American Breakdown

The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

David Bromwich

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English
Verso
01 October 2019
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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Imprint:   Verso
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   354g
ISBN:   9781788737265
ISBN 10:   1788737261
Pages:   192
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Bromwich is the Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, and the author most recently of The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke (2014), Moral Imagination (2014), and Literary Genius (2007). His essays and reviews have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Huffington Post and the Times Literary Supplement. His collection of essays Skeptical Music was awarded the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

Reviews for American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

David Bromwich is our elegant American muse, our Boswell, whose incisive and caustic reporting on the political scene and the presidency often evokes Hunter S. Thompson. There is much to learn, and enjoy, in American Breakdown. --Seymour M. Hersh One of the most incisive writers in America today. --Edward Mendelson Bromwich is particularly sharp on the way government spokesmen wrap the realities of massacre, torture, and gratuitous cruelty in euphemism ... A critic in the tradition of Hazlitt and Orwell. --Alan Ryan For several decades, David Bromwich has stood out among American critics as one of the most daring and knowledgeable challengers of received opinion and orthodoxies. --Margery Sabin


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