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Why American democracy is not in decline

Jill Lepore's collection of essays takes readers on a guided tour through the rise and presumed decline of the US, with Trump emerging as the ultimate object of the author's scorn

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The American Beast, Essays, 2012-2022

Shreekant Sambrani
The American Beast, Essays, 2012-2022
Author: Jill Lepore
Publisher: Hachette
Pages: xii+283
Price: Rs 799

Jill Lepore is furious at America: At its gun-owning culture that spawns horrifying killings, including all-too-frequent mass shootings, at what seems to be institutionalised racism and at “the decay of the party system, the celebration of political intolerance by both the right and the left, the contribution of social media to political extremism, and the predicament of American journalism.”

The quote appears towards the end of the book of her essays under review, in the context of why “two in five Americans and three in five Republicans still believe”

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