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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Across the 2008 GOP primaries, anti-immigration fervor foretold what the Republican Party’s future would look like in years ahead.
Chapter 3: The 2008 financial meltdown sparked ideological conflict inside the Republican Party and ignited the country’s early stirrings of a populist mood as well.
Chapter 4: In reaction to Barack Obama’s presidency, the political right became consumed by racism and ideological zealotry.
Chapter 5: The Tea Party movement signaled how the Republican Party would undergo transformation in the years to come ahead.
Chapter 6: Donald Trump’s presidential campaign reshaped the Republican Party.
Chapter 7: Throughout the 2016 primary debates, Trump shattered the Republican Party’s long-standing orthodoxy completely.
Chapter 8: The 2016 election results exposed America’s emerging divides.
Chapter 9: The culture clash that gripped America culminated in a tragic incident indeed.
Description
American Carnage (2019) details the ideological battle at the heart of the Republican Party over the last decade. From George Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” to the Tea Party’s right-wing fervor, Tim Alberta covers the ideological metamorphosis that led to Donald Trump’s presidency.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone with an interest in American politics
- Budding Washington hacks
- Those anxious about the rise of the far right