{"product_id":"what-were-we-thinking-a-brief-intellectual-history-of-the-trump-era-paperback","title":"What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCarlos Lozada\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this \"crisp, engaging, and very smart\" (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e) work, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e's Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic digs into books of the Trump era and finds that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is an irony of our age that a man who rarely reads has unleashed an onslaught of books about his tenure and his time. Dissections of the white working class. Manifestos of political resistance. Works on identity, gender, and migration. Memoirs on race and protest. Revelations of White House mayhem. Warnings over the future of conservatism, progressivism, and of American democracy itself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a book critic for \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Carlos Lozada has read just about all of them. In \u003ci\u003eWhat Were We Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, he draws on some 150 recent volumes to explore how we understand ourselves in the Trump era. Lozada's characters are not the president, his advisers, or his antagonists but the political and cultural ideas at play--and at stake--in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust as Trump's election upended the country's political establishment, it shocked its intellectual class. Though some of the books of the Trump era skillfully illuminate the challenges and transformations the nation faces, too many works are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right. Lozada offers a provocative argument: Whether written by liberals or conservatives, activists or academics, true believers or harsh critics, the books of Trump's America are vulnerable to the same failures of imagination that gave us this presidency in the first place. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWhat Were We Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e, Lozada's selections range from bestselling titles to little-known works, from thoroughly reported accounts of the administration to partisan polemics, from meditations on the fate of truth to memoirs about enduring--or enabling--the Trump presidency. He also identifies books that challenge entrenched assumptions and shift our vantage points, the books that best help us make sense of this era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is an \"elegant yet lacerating\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e) intellectual history of our time, a work that transcends daily headlines to discern how we got here and how we thought here. \u003ci\u003eWhat Were We Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e will help today's readers understand America, and will help tomorrow's readers look back and understand us.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarlos Lozada is the nonfiction book critic of \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e and winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.42 x 5.57 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51988358267181,"sku":"9781982145637","price":18.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/RFJGOUdRaWQrOXVmcE11MFY2VGl2QT09.webp?v=1776210619","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/what-were-we-thinking-a-brief-intellectual-history-of-the-trump-era-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}