American Breakdown: The Trump Years and How They Befell Us

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The Cheney co-presidency -- What went wrong: the Obama legacy -- Act one, scene one -- The age of detesting Trump -- American breakdown.;"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 candor 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"-- The Cheney co-presidency -- What went wrong: the Obama legacy -- Act one, scene one -- The age of detesting Trump -- American breakdown.