What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era

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By Carlos Lozada *97

Published Oct. 21, 2020

What Were We Thinking presents an intellectual history of the Trump era from the perspective of Washington Post book reviewer Carlos Lozada *97. Drawing on an extensive amount of books on Trump’s political success, Lozada describes a changing 21st-century America and argues that many books on Trump suffer from the same blind spots that led to his victory.

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