Our Founders' Warning by Strobe Talbott
The presidency of Donald Trump has wreaked havoc on American democracy. Amid myriad books on the Trump phenomenon, Strobe Talbott has stepped back from the fray and mined useful history, reminding us of the Founders' legacy and reinstating it in these dark days.
This book provides some much-needed clarity to the ideas and actions of the American founders—primarily Franklin, Washington, Madison, and Hamilton—in creating the United States and its government and how Donald Trump and Trumpism challenge these founding ideas and institutionsImportant to this examination is the influence of Enlightenment and even earlier political philosophers on the founders. Political thought created a valuable learning tool for the founders and demonstrated the constancy of behavior and government. Talbott (Brookings Institution) simply and concisely traces the founders' connections to political thought and explains how and why these ideas impacted their actions. Trumpism upends the founders' work by rejecting the norms they created through these foundational ideas. Talbott clearly expresses the conflict between founding ideas, including fears and warnings, and the actions of Trump and his administration up to September 2020. This book provides a valuable introduction to comparing founding ideas and the effects of the initial output of Trumpism on American government. Recommended. * Choice Reviews *
Strobe Talbott is a scholar in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and academe, is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on Europe, Russia, South Asia, and nuclear arms control.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780815738237 |
| ISBN 10 | 0815738234 |
| Title | Our Founders' Warning |
| Author | Strobe Talbott |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
| Year published | 2020-08-25 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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