Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump’s Rise to Power, and the State of the Country that Voted for Him

Beautiful Country Burn Again: Trump’s Rise to Power, and the State of the Country that Voted for Him

by Ben Fountain (Author)

Synopsis

As Ben Fountain sees it, the United States is facing its third existential crisis. The first was the struggle over slavery, culminating in the Civil War. The second was the Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialised world, which brought about the New Deal. The third, is Donald Trump. But how will it end? Taking in America's love affair with firearms, celebrity culture, Russia, Obamacare, Hillary Clinton and, of course, Trump himself, Beautiful Country Burn Again explores how the United States reached a new crisis point and asks how America really can be great again.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 01 Nov 2018

ISBN 10: 1786892006
ISBN 13: 9781786892003

Media Reviews
A masterpiece of a book, the true story of American possibility -- DAVID FINKEL, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of THE GOOD SOLDIERS
Fountain has the storytelling gifts to bring the world home to us and a moral compass set to true north -- GARY SHTEYNGART
Fountain writes with sparkle and humour * * Daily Express * *
[Fountain has] a pitch-perfect ear for American talk * * New Yorker * *
Masterful . . . worthwhile, urgent, and timely -- STEPHANIE GARBER, author of CARAVAL
Author Bio
Ben Fountain is the author of the acclaimed short-story collection Brief Encounters with Che Guevara and the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, which won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the 2012 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2012 National Book Award. The film adaptation of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk was directed by Ang Lee. In addition, he has received the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, an O. Henry Award and two Pushcart Prizes. He was also shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in 2012. His writing has been published in Harper's, The Paris Review, Zoetrope: All-Story and Stories from the South: The Year's Best, The New York Times and the Guardian among other publications. He lives in Dallas, Texas.