Description
Book SynopsisThe Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic uses the books of the Trump era to argue that our response to this presidency reflects the same failures of imagination that made it possible. As a book critic for
The Washington Post, Carlos Lozada has read some 150 volumes claiming to diagnose why Trump was elected and what his presidency reveals about our nation. Many of these, he’s found, are more defensive than incisive, more righteous than right.
In
What Were We Thinking, Lozada 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. He dissects works on the white working class like
Hillbilly Elegy; manifestos from the anti-Trump resistance like
On Tyranny and
No Is Not Enough; books on race, gender, and identity like
How to Be an Antiracist and
Good and Mad; polem
