The Dismantling of America: Trump, Systemic Collapse and the Post-American World (Futures) - Softcover
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The Dismantling of America is a stark, eloquent meditation on a superpower at the edge. Moving from the corrosion of democratic norms to the shockwaves of foreign policy overreach, James E. Isham traces the invisible threads binding domestic fracture to global realignment. Through vivid argument and sweeping synthesis, the book contends that America's crisis is not a single event but an accelerating convergence: permanent war and imperial overstretch, economic precarity and cultural exhaustion, broken alliances abroad and broken trust at home.
From the cataclysmic presidency that normalised norm-breaking to the 2026 war that exposed the vulnerability of forward bases and the fragility of credibility, Isham shows how spectacle replaced substance and how power, unmoored from purpose, became empty theatre. Yet this is not a screed. It is a reckoning-and an invitation. Across chapters on social dissolution, media illusion, bipartisan decay, and the emergence of a multipolar world, the author asks what remains worth saving and how a nation might trade supremacy for wisdom and dominance for dignity.
Combining political theory and contemporary reportage, The Dismantling of America engages Kennedy, Johnson, Nye, Mearsheimer, Bacevich, and others to illuminate the road from hegemony to humility. Its conclusion is bracing: reform is still possible, but only if America abandons comforting myths, confronts the costs of its choices, and rebuilds legitimacy from the inside out.
For readers of Bacevich, Piketty, Zakaria, and Snyder, this book offers a powerful framework to understand the post-American moment - and a humane compass for what could come after the fall.
Remarkably clear-eyed and unsentimental, The Dismantling of America is a field guide to a vanishing order and a manifesto for renewal grounded not in nostalgia but in reality.
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