Trump's America

Liam Kennedy is Professor of American Studies and Director of the Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. He is author of Susan Sontag: Mind as Passion (Manchester University Press) and co-editor (with Maria Balshaw) of Urban Space and Representation (Pluto Press).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Making Sense of Trump’s AmericaLiam KennedyPart One: Paradigm Shift1. Donald Trump’s Settler-Colonist State (Fantasy): A New Era of Illiberal Hegemony? Donald E. Pease2. Caesarism Revisited: Cultural Studies and The Question of Trumpism Stephen Shapiro 3. Hegemoronic Vistas: The Pseudo-Gramscian Right from the Powell Memo to ‘The Flight 93 Election’ Frank Kelleter4. Women Voters and Activists in Trump’s AmericaMelissa Deckman and Kelly M. GardnerPart Two: Foreign Policy and Global Relations5. Angry at the World: Progressive Possibilities in Trump’s Disruption of the Current Order Patrick McGreevy6. Trump or the Cultural Logic of "Late" Democracy David Ryan7. The End of the Age of Three Worlds and the Making of the Trump Presidency Penny Von Eschen8. Trumpism and the Future of US Grand Strategy Jack Thompson9. From George W. Bush to Donald Trump: Understanding the Exceptional Resilience of Democracy Promotion in US Political Discourse Eugenio LilliPart Three: Identity Politics and the Politics of Spectacle10. ‘If You Want to Know Why 2016 Happened, Read This Book’: Class, Race, and the Literature of Disinvestment (the Case of Hillbilly Elegy) Hamilton Carroll11. Ivanka Trump and the New Plutocratic (Post)feminism Diane Negra12. Trump and the Age of Hybrid Media Communicators Alireza Hajihosseini13. ‘Reality has a Well-Known Liberal Bias’: The End(s) of Satire in Trump’s America Liam Kennedy14. Spectacle of Decency: Repairing America After Trump Scott LucasIndex

Trump’s America offers worthy early analysis of the damaging legacy of Trump’s illiberal democracy and a testament to the relevance of cross-disciplinary American Studies in producing meaning from the complexity of the United States and, as Kennedy and Shapiro suggest, asking the right kind of questions “to begin the daunting task of creating a new cultural hegemony.