Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

12 Anmeldelser

4.3

Længde
8T 51M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Fakta

In this “crisp, engaging, and very smart” (The New York Times Book Review) work, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize–winning book critic digs into books of the Trump era and finds that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible.

It is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of books about his tenure and his time. Dissections of the white working class. Manifestos of political resistance. Works on identity, gender, and migration. Memoirs on race and protest. Revelations of White House mayhem. Warnings over the future of conservatism, progressivism, and of American democracy itself. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read just about all of them. In What Were We Thinking, he draws on some 150 recent volumes to explore how we understand ourselves in the Trump era. Lozada’s characters are not the president, his advisers, or his antagonists but the political and cultural ideas at play—and at stake—in America. Just as Trump’s election upended the country’s political establishment, it shocked its intellectual class. Though some of the books of the Trump era skillfully illuminate the challenges and transformations the nation faces, too many works are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right. Lozada offers a provocative argument: Whether written by liberals or conservatives, activists or academics, true believers or harsh critics, the books of Trump’s America are vulnerable to the same failures of imagination that gave us this presidency in the first place. In What Were We Thinking, Lozada’s selections range from bestselling titles to little-known works, from thoroughly reported accounts of the administration to partisan polemics, from meditations on the fate of truth to memoirs about enduring—or enabling—the Trump presidency. He also identifies books that challenge entrenched assumptions and shift our vantage points, the books that best help us make sense of this era. The result is an “elegant yet lacerating” (The Guardian) intellectual history of our time, a work that transcends daily headlines to discern how we got here and how we thought here. What Were We Thinking will help today’s readers understand America, and will help tomorrow’s readers look back and understand us.

© 2020 Simon & Schuster Audio (Lydbog): 9781797118376

Release date

Lydbog: 6. oktober 2020

Andre kan også lide...

  1. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America Frances FitzGerald
  2. Prisoners of History: What Monuments to the Second World War Tell Us About Our History and Ourselves Keith Lowe
  3. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War Louis Menand
  4. Drums in the Distance: Journeys Into the Global Far Right Joe Mulhall
  5. The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues, and the Coming Dark Age James Kirchick
  6. The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics Angie Maxwell
  7. The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture Matthew Stewart
  8. War for Eternity: Inside Bannon's Far-Right Circle of Global Power Brokers Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
  9. The Ambassadors: America's Diplomats on the Front Lines Paul Richter
  10. The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution David Paul Kuhn
  11. Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem Tim Shipman
  12. Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia Alexander A. Cooley, PhD
  13. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America Kathleen Belew
  14. To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe Matthew Lockwood
  15. Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity Walter Scheidel
  16. Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections David Daley
  17. The French Mind: 400 Years of Romance, Revolution and Renewal Peter Watson
  18. The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism Lerone A. Martin
  19. Audience of One: Television, Donald Trump, and the Politics of Illusion James Poniewozik
  20. Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy Matt Stoller
  21. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror Beverly Gage
  22. Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire Tom Zoellner
  23. All Out War: The Full Story of How Brexit Sank Britain’s Political Class Tim Shipman
  24. The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe since 1492 Philipp Ther
  25. The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 Jay Winik
  26. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 Milton Mayer
  27. Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad Michela Wrong
  28. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain: Brexit and the Politics of Pain Fintan O'Toole
  29. The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies Ryszard Legutko
  30. Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun America Thomas Milan Konda
  31. This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy Jonathan Martin
  32. The Amur River: Between Russia and China Colin Thubron
  33. The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today David Stastavage
  34. Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America Jared Cohen
  35. The Invention of China Bill Hayton
  36. Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives Philip N. Howard
  37. Red Flags: Why Xi’s China Is in Jeopardy George Magnus
  38. Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History Alex von Tunzelmann
  39. Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups and Assassinations Vijay Prashad
  40. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory David W. Blight
  41. The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution Nils Melzer
  42. War in the Age of Trump: The Defeat of ISIS, the Fall of the Kurds, the Conflict with Iran Patrick Cockburn
  43. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism Tim Alberta
  44. Beijing Rules: How China Weaponized Its Economy to Confront the World Bethany Allen
  45. Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America John Sides

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet