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What Were We Thinking - A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era (Hardcover)
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What Were We Thinking - A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era (Hardcover)
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The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the
books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this
presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it
possible. As a book critic for The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada
has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was
elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Many of
these, he's found, are more defensive than incisive, more righteous
than right. In What Were We Thinking, Lozada uses these books to
tell the story of how we understand ourselves in the Trump era,
using as his main characters the political ideas and debates at
play in America today. He dissects works on the white working class
like Hillbilly Elegy; manifestos from the anti-Trump resistance
like On Tyranny and No Is Not Enough; books on race, gender, and
identity like How to Be an Antiracist and Good and Mad; polemics on
the future of the conservative movement like The Corrosion of
Conservatism; and of course plenty of books about Trump himself.
Lozada's argument is provocative: that many of these books-whether
written by liberals or conservatives, activists or academics,
Trump's true believers or his harshest critics-are vulnerable to
the same blind spots, resentments, and failures that gave us his
presidency. But Lozada also highlights the books that succeed in
illuminating how America is changing in the 21st century. What Were
We Thinking is an intellectual history of the Trump era in real
time, helping us transcend the battles of the moment and see
ourselves for who we really are.
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