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When America Stopped Being Great

Yazan: Nick Bryant
Seslendiren: Ben Chapple
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 In When America Stopped Being Great, veteran reporter and BBC New York correspondent Nick Bryant reveals how America's decline paved the way for Donald Trump's rise, sowing division and leaving the country vulnerable to its greatest challenge of the modern era.

Deftly sifting through almost four decades of American history, from post-Cold War optimism, through the scandal-wracked nineties and into the new millennium, Bryant unpacks the mistakes of past administrations, from Ronald Reagan's 'celebrity presidency' to Barack Obama's failure to adequately address income and racial inequality. He explains how the historical clues, unseen by many (including the media) paved the way for an outsider to take power and a country to slide towards disaster. As Bryant writes, 'rather than being an aberration, Trump's presidency marked the culmination of so much of what had been going wrong in the United States for decades - economically, racially, politically, culturally, technologically and constitutionally.'

A personal elegy for an America lost, unafraid to criticise actors on both sides of the political divide, When America Stopped Being Great takes the long view, combining engaging storytelling with recent history to show how the country moved from the optimism of Reagan's 'Morning in America' to the darkness of Trump's 'American Carnage'. It concludes with some of the most dramatic events in recent memory, in an America torn apart by a bitterly polarised election, racial division, the national catastrophe of the coronavirus and the threat to US democracy evidenced by the storming of Capitol Hill.

'Nick Bryant is brilliant. He has a way of showing you what you've been missing from the whole story whilst never leaving you feeling stupid.' - Emily Maitlis

'Bryant is a genuine rarity, a Brit who understands America' - Washington Post Americas Elections & Political Process Political Science Politics & Activism Politics & Government Presidents & Heads of State United States World Komik Amerikan Tarihi Şöhret Sosyalizm Liberalizm Soğuk Savaş
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Nick Bryant knows the USA & presents a comprehensive analysis of the sources & repercussions of the disharmony that has existed since independence. The final result is undermined, in the audio version, by the discordant reading from an undoubtedly talented actor, but one who uses ‘Americanised’ pronunciations throughout & can’t do French phrases justice. What a pity.

Good book; discordant delivery

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Putting aside the oddity of an Australian reading a book by a British BBC Correspondent in America (who you can hear when he stands in for John Sopel on BBC’s Americast), although he was in Australia for a time, there are for too many careless errors of pronunciation generally and of British and American place names.e.g. Mobile and Salisbury, both of which made me wince. Why not make the effort to check and why such poor editing? The book is great however on the decline in functioning democracy in the USA but I could do without being regularly irritated at the narrator.

Great book, careless narration

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The book itself is great. I wish I'd bought the Kindle version as the Audible version is quite terrible.

Why is a British BBC journalist being narrated by an Australian? It makes no sense. Nick Bryant doesn't sound like this in real life, he hasn't got an Australian accent, so why pick this narrator? It's ridiculous.

But not as ridiculous as picking a narrator who clearly knows nothing about the subject he's narrating. Surely the most basic qualification to narrate a political history like this to know how to pronounce the names of the various people in it. But no. This guy consistently gets names wrong. Who is "Eee-hud Barak"? Who is "Malay-nia (Trump)"? It truly grates on the ears.

Great book, terrible narrator

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Protect an outsider‘s perspective to give the fairest perspective. Nick goes to the last 50 years of American white houses and their occupants.

A fair and frightening assessment of post war Amerca.

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This book is a must-read for anyone wondering how Trump (and later Johnson) got elected. The narration is good and the analysis is informed, well-researched and balanced.

Brilliant!!

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