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American Discontent

The Rise of Donald Trump and Decline of the Golden Age

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American Discontent

By: John L. Campbell
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. He was the first true outsider to win the White House in over a century and the wealthiest populist in American history. Democrats and Republicans alike were left scratching their heads - how did this happen?

In American Discontent, John L. Campbell contextualizes Donald Trump's success by focusing on the long-developing economic, racial, ideological, and political shifts that enabled Trump to win the White House. Campbell argues that Trump's rise to power was the culmination of a half-century of deep, slow-moving change in America, beginning with the decline of the Golden Age of prosperity that followed the Second World War. The worsening economic anxieties of many Americans reached a tipping point when the 2008 financial crisis and Barack Obama's election, as the first African American president, finally precipitated the worst political gridlock in generations. Americans were fed up and Trump rode a wave of discontent all the way to the White House.

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Out of all 30 or so books about Donald Trump that I have listened to since 2015 to this day and forward, (2024), this has to be the most defining and finest account of Trump and the GOP.
The best listens I buy in the Kindle version when engaging writing has such sage and quotable facts not tainted by partisan views.
Highly Recommended.

Trump's Presidency Defined at it's Scholarly Best.

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