TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lozada,Carlos
TI  - What were we thinking: a brief intellectual history of the Trump era 
SN  - 9781982145620
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - Trump, Donald,
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Election
KW  - 2016
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2017-
KW  - Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction Heartlandia -- Resistible -- The conservative pivot -- Beyond the wall -- True enough -- See some I.D. -- Him, too -- The chaos chronicles -- Russian lit -- In plain view -- Epilogue
N2  - "[A] book critic of The Washington Post digs into the books of the Trump era and ... [asserts] that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible"--; As a book critic for The Washington Post, Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Now he uses these books to tell the story of how we understand ourselves in the Trump era, using as his main characters the political ideas and debates at play in America today. Lozada's argument is provocative: that many of these books, whoever the author, are vulnerable to the same blind spots, resentments, and failures that gave us his presidency. Lozada also highlights the books that succeed in illuminating how America is changing in the 21st century.  -- adapted from Amazon info and book jacket
ER  -