04428nam a2200385 c 4500 BV050749523 DE-604 00000000000000.0 t| 260521s2026 xx a||| b||| 00||| eng d 9781496244857 hbk 9781496244857 DE-604 ger rda Lewis, Randolph 1966- Verfasser (DE-588)173694152 aut Bummerland ruin and restoration in Trump's new America Randolph Lewis Ruin and restoration in Trump's new America Lincoln University of Nebraska Press [2026] 256 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm The super-hyped, ultra-rich technopolis of despair -- Into the wasteland -- Waiting for Elon -- Plastic passion -- Healing Inc. -- Testosterone -- White lies -- Jewel thieves -- Our degraded Chaplin -- The aging process -- Subdivision -- Selma -- Pigeons -- Sensitive man -- Killing us softly -- Behind the pine curtain -- Civil war -- Big-box blues -- Under the violet crown -- Rage lava -- The F-word -- Naked lunch 2020 -- Obscene delirium -- Animal people -- Dreams never end -- Lowered expectations -- Electric Kool-Aid acid reflux -- Sweatshop Barbie -- Stress test -- Walmart salvation 2021 -- Norway/Uvalde -- Vegas loopy -- Exile -- Sway -- Unobtanium "In Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump's New America, Randolph Lewis scours the soul of the country during the Trump and pandemic eras with a sharp eye and keen wit to offer both a forensic 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 adventures and sojourns to an apocalyptic slab of the Mojave Desert, the paradoxical land around Colorado Springs, the seductively deranged city known as Las Vegas, the expat communities of Central Mexico, the racial hot spots of the Deep South, among other subjects of the 2020s"-- "With radical candor and sardonic wit, Randolph Lewis offers an autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of hope and redemption among the detritus strewn about by neo-Gilded Age billionaires, 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 reality 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, and fear. Wanting to decipher how things went sideways in such a hurry, Lewis drove 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 under assault near Colorado Springs; the epic sprawl of Las Vegas, Austin, and Houston; 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 unfolding 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 modern American life under a system whose democratic norms have been stretched to the limit.Lewis, an American studies professor for three decades, examines the trajectories of cultural burnout that have ushered us into a new Gilded Age of fear, hustle, and hype. In this passionate critique of the anxious new world we inhabit, Lewis offers sketches of where we've ended up, why it feels so wrong, and how we might find our way out of Bummerland"-- Social change / United States / History / 21st century United States / Social conditions / 21st century United States / Politics and government / 2017-2021 États-Unis / Conditions sociales / 21e siècle États-Unis / Politique et gouvernement / 2017-2021 HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) HISTORY / Modern / 21st Century oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-036094381 (DE-599)BVBBV050749523 eng DE-12 txt rdacontent sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier