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aRuin and restoration in Trump's new America\x1e419 \x1faLincoln\x1fbUniversity of Nebras
ka Press\x1fc[2026]\x1e425a2026\x1e433 256 Seiten\x1e434 Illustrationen\x1e435 24 cm\x1e521 \x1faThe 
super-hyped, ultra-rich technopolis of despair -- Into the wasteland -- Waiting 
for Elon -- Plastic passion -- Healing Inc. -- Testosterone -- White lies -- Jew
el thieves -- Our degraded Chaplin -- The aging process -- Subdivision -- Selma 
-- Pigeons -- Sensitive man -- Killing us softly -- Behind the pine curtain -- C
ivil war -- Big-box blues -- Under the violet crown -- Rage lava -- The F-word -
- Naked lunch 2020 -- Obscene delirium -- Animal people -- Dreams never end -- L
owered expectations -- Electric Kool-Aid acid reflux -- Sweatshop Barbie -- Stre
ss test -- Walmart salvation 2021 -- Norway/Uvalde -- Vegas loopy -- Exile -- Sw
ay -- Unobtanium\x1e540aISBN 9781496244857 hbk\x1e710aSocial change / United States / 
History / 21st century\x1e710dUnited States / Social conditions / 21st century\x1e710d
United States / Politics and government / 2017-2021\x1e710d\xc2Etats-Unis / Conditions
 sociales / 21e si\xc1ecle\x1e710d\xc2Etats-Unis / Politique et gouvernement / 2017-2021\x1e
710aHISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, 
UT, WY)\x1e710aHISTORY / Modern / 21st Century\x1e750b"In Bummerland: Ruin and Restora
tion in Trump's New America, Randolph Lewis scours the soul of the country durin
g the Trump and pandemic eras with a sharp eye and keen wit to offer both a fore
nsic and autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of democratic hope and
 future redemption among the detritus strewn about by villainous Neo-Gilded Age 
billionaires, Big Tech, and right-wing America. Lewis takes the reader on high a
dventures and sojourns to an apocalyptic slab of the Mojave Desert, the paradoxi
cal land around Colorado Springs, the seductively deranged city known as Las Veg
as, the expat communities of Central Mexico, the racial hot spots of the Deep So
uth, among other subjects of the 2020s"--\x1e753b"With radical candor and sardonic 
wit, Randolph Lewis offers an autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers o
f hope and redemption among the detritus strewn about by neo-Gilded Age billiona
ires, Big Tech, and political extremes during the first Trump administration and
 the pandemic era. American life took a weird turn in June 2015, when an aging r
eality star descended a golden escalator to announce his bid for the White House
. From there, Lewis watched from his longtime home in the Lone Star State as the
 country slipped into an endless fever dream churning with chaos, uncertainty, a
nd fear. Wanting to decipher how things went sideways in such a hurry, Lewis dro
ve all over the Sunbelt and beyond, trying to make sense of what was happening. 
He sojourns to an apocalyptic slab of the Mojave Desert; the rugged mountains un
der assault near Colorado Springs; the epic sprawl of Las Vegas, Austin, and Hou
ston; the expat communities of central Mexico; the hotbeds of racism in the Deep
 South; and the fjords of Norway, from which, surreally, Lewis watched the unfol
ding news of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and decided to go there. In a
 register mournful, meditative, and darkly comic, Lewis offers a portrait of mod
ern American life under a system whose democratic norms have been stretched to t
he limit.Lewis, an American studies professor for three decades, examines the tr
ajectories of cultural burnout that have ushered us into a new Gilded Age of fea
r, hustle, and hype. In this passionate critique of the anxious new world we inh
abit, Lewis offers sketches of where we've ended up, why it feels so wrong, and 
how we might find our way out of Bummerland"--\x1eLOWaBSB01\x1e\x1d