| WHEN AMERICA STOPPED BEING GREAT A History of the Present Nick Bryant London: Bloomsbury Continuum, March 2021 |
Rating: 4.5 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-4729-8548-4 | ||||
| ISBN 1-4729-8548-6 | 374pp. | HC | $30.00 | |
| Page 27: | "The Watergate scandal and Nixon's resignation was another boon for Reagan, for it made his anti-Washington rhetoric all the more resonant." |
| Number error: S/B "were boons". |
| Page 150: | "Gore was a hapless campaigner. After Bill Clinton's touchy-feely presidency, this technology-obsessed technocratic came across as an automaton, a Buzz Lightyear of a politician..." |
| Part-of-speech error: S/B "technocrat". |
| Page 205: | "Deprived of its Alaskan Evita, star-struck movement conservatives were forced to consider less appealing alternatives." |
| Number error: S/B "their".s |
| Page 228-9: | "It also meant more of the national conservation played out online, although in ways that often accentuated political separatism." |
| Word choice: S/B "conversation". |
| Page 284: | "This is precisely what Steve Bannon meant when he spoke of 'the destruction of the administrative state'." |
| Word choice: S/B "deconstruction". |
| Page 339: | "The veneration of the constitution, and the lionisation of the framers, has had an immobilising effect on America." |
| Capitalization error: S/B "Constitution". |
| Page 340: | "The fact that the Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections but the Republicans have nominated 15 of the last 19 justices underscores the need for a thoroughgoing national debate about the modern-day validity of an old-fashioned constitution." |
| Capitalization error: S/B "Constitution". |
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