– Below is a detailed review of the book ‘Trump’s America: Diplomacy and Economic Policies’
The Book writing is a work of art in itself. Apart from the labor and tedium of the regular details and the “routinised rituals” of the President Trump’s Presidency, the Book utilizes the quintessential argument that with great power comes great responsibility. The book has been authored by Dr. Manan Dwivedi who is a faculty for International Relations at Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi. This is his eighth book.
The strength of the tome lies in its eclectic and multifarious nature of relevant details and the attendant American political and economic space. The Book takes up the theme of Gun Running in the American sphere which has been taken up rather bravely and incisively by the author. The author matures and transforms the American narrative away from the ponderous and castigative visage of President Trump as being a whimsical world leader and all subsumed with controversy and idiosyncrasies. The author takes to another mature keel, which, brings into focus the eclectic planning initiated by President Donald Trump on the cusp of Presidential Elections to be held in 2020 to realize the dream of United States of America, the mythical nation atop Mt.Sinai.
The myriad themes of Immigration, Health care sector and the economic health of the American Republic have been pinpointed rather poignantly by the author and with substantial details. The theme of the American Dream and its attendant culture too has been delved inside by the author during the rumbustious ethos, fervor and veneer of the American Republic which is all set to choose and garland its new President come 2021. The narrative initiates with two though provoking chapters on the Mexican wall adage along with the details of the US and President Trump’s variant of American immigration. Gun Running challenges the fundamental premise of the American nation both as a civilized nation and as a purveyor of the liberal Demos. On the other side of the fence are the agrarian aggressor who own guns and the derelicts who own advanced weaponry which lead to the gun running incidents sometimes at an American school or in Mall or in the lobby of a Cinema Hall. It’s much beyond what David Kuresh did to the American disciples a few decades back! These happen to be the highlights of the author’s labor of love which have been incisively and pin pointedly delved inside to its entrails inside the American socio-political and economic psychobabble.
United States of America is a national par excellence with its liberal order and its larger than life Democratic ethos and the nation has been fortunate to have a similar high end leadership in the form of its various Presidents residing in the White House.
Though in a post truth age, the idiom of Culture takes a political beating somewhere as geo- economics is the nom de plume of international politics these days or in the contemporary spiral of things. Apart from this part of the narrative, the founding myth of the nation is a yardstick by which the various Presidents have been measured and their functions and performance analyzed. President Trump is no exceptionalism in this case study where in American exceptionalism happens to be the myth and lore and the avowed policy zeal of President Trump since his advent in the seat of power in 2016 after the achievement a major feat by defeating all powerful and seemingly people’s candidate. The author leaves no stone unturned to emphasize that the Book is not a personality sketch over the ;life and times of Donald Trump but the work assumes its added importance in the light of the China threat, the cobbling in of the “ Quad of nations” along with the Covid zeal of Trump’s President.
