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Ben Chapple

Sydney-bred writer, actor, musician and athlete Ben Chapple has written and performed his own plays to critical acclaim. Notably, his 2016 play Briony was shortlisted for the Sydney Theatre Company’s prestigious Patrick White Playwrights’ Award. Ben starred in Screentime/Network Ten’s second series of Playing for Keeps in the lead role of AFL superstar Liam Flynn. Onstage, Ben has played iconic characters sch as Father Flynn in Doubt (2016), Francis in The Golden Age (2017) Holden Caulfield in Reg Cribbs’ Bullies (2018) and Paul in Birdland (2019).

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Title:: When America Stopped Being Great (MP3)
Written by:: Nick Bryant
Read by:: Ben Chapple
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 12 hours 37 minutes
MP3 size:: 522 MB
Published:: August 18 2020
Available Date:: August 18 2020
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9780655687214
Genres:: Non-fiction; Current Affairs & Politics
Publisher:: Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia

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A comprehensive analysis of the political, economic, cultural and technological factors that contributed to America’s decline and inadvertently paved the way for Trump’s presidency.

The presidency of Donald Trump is commonly seen as an historical accident. In When America Stopped Being Great, Nick Bryant argues that by 2016 it had become almost historically inescapable. In this highly personal account, drawing on decades of covering Washington for the BBC, Bryant shows how the billionaire capitalised on the mistakes of his five predecessors, Ronald Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and how also he became a beneficiary of a broken politics, an iniquitous economy, an ailing media, a facile culture, disruptive new technology and the creation of a modern-day presidency that elevated showmanship over statesmanship. Not only are we starting to see the emergence of a post-American world, Bryant fears we are seeing the emergence of a post-American America. The history of Trump’s rise is also a history of America’s fall – not only are we witnessing America’s post-millennial decline, but also the country's disintegration.