A review by jmatkinson1
When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present by Nick Bryant

4.0

Nick Bryant has, by confession, had a love affair with the United States since his teenage years and as a student and then a political correspondent has lived in the country on and off for decades. H ere he takes a look at the political landscape from the mid-1980s to the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Alongside this he places the politics into the backdrop of the social and economic zeitgeist and how they have danced around each other. I found the book particularly interesting in terms of the long game in American politics, how Trump's life and career echoed the bigger picture of American society and also the view that Hilary Clinton lost the 2016 election 20 years earlier.