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American Carnage
- On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp
- Durée: 26 h et 23 min
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Description
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party - how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump.
The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump’s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence.
American Carnage is the story of a president’s rise based on a country’s evolution and a party’s collapse. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: They had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s forceful pursuit of his progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural and demographic landscape, lit a fire under the right, returning Republicans to power and inviting a bloody struggle for the party’s identity in the post-Bush era. The factions that emerged - one led by absolutists like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz, the other led by pragmatists like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell - engaged in a series of devastating internecine clashes and attempted coups for control. With the GOP’s internal fissures rendering it legislatively impotent, and that impotence fueling a growing resentment toward the political class and its institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to announce his run in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment.
Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the Republican Party - and of the parallel sense of cultural, socioeconomic, and technological disruption during that period - can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil. How did a party obsessed with the national debt vote for trillion-dollar deficits and record-setting spending increases? How did the party of compassionate conservatism become the party of Muslim bans and walls? How did the party of family values elect a thrice-divorced philanderer? And, most important, how long can such a party survive?
Loaded with exclusive reporting and based off hundreds of interviews - including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Reince Priebus, and many others - American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period as we’ve never seen it before and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of this political era.
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Au global4 out of 5 stars
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- "one2three4"
- 2019-08-17
Good, but loonnnnnggggg
A very comprehensive overview of the system that brought Trump to power, and where America may go after he leaves office. It’s very thorough, but also very long.
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- philip moss
- 2019-08-06
Solid account of an important political phenom
Read the subtitle. If you're interested in that subject, you should read this book. It's focused and well organized and decently written. The audio performance was well done too. Only qualification would be that, if you're a political news junkie you will already know most of the information presented.
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- ZoopMan!
- 2021-02-21
American Carnage
Excellent depiction of the last 15-20 years of the GOP especially during the Trump era. Tim Alberta chronicles the battles within the GOP and between the two major parties. Jason Culp did a nice narration of this 688-page book.
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- Client d'Amazon
- 2019-07-29
Entertaining but...
It’s a well written book, but if you’re news savvy and junky, nothing seems new! Nothing is groundbreaking. Even if Paul Ryan was a source of information. All you learn is that most republicans didn’t feel comfortable with Trump, but supported him because they were power hungry. Overall, ok book!
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- Jeff Waldner
- 2019-08-14
Good start but went off the rails halfway through
The author did a great job with the first half documenting the GOP during Bush and Obama years. It was riveting back room political drama and power plays. But as soon as Trump is introduced it turns into an empty and biased Trump bashing, Democrat party talking point saturated hit piece. Im Canadian and don't have a dog in the race but the blatant omitting of facts and labeling everything a conspiracy theory was hugely disappointing. The author doesn't dig deep on most subject Trump, so its all surface level bias aimed to make Trump look as bad as possible. I guess that's predictable but i had higher hopes. Had to stop at chapter 22 and call it. Tim Alberta, do better.
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