Menu
Top of the pile
91
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
87/100Critics
96/100Scholars
Author:
Nick Bryant
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Continuum
Date:
March 9, 2021
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.
What The Reviewers Say
The tradition of foreign thinkers commenting on American democracy is long and distinguished.
BBC senior foreign correspondent Bryant mounts a scathing indictment of the polarization and degradation that have transformed the U.S..
BBC foreign correspondent Bryant (Confessions from Correspondentland) delivers a revealing outsider’s perspective on the roots of America’s current state of 'disunion'.
