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Made in America
  • Published: 15 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9781911742111
  • Imprint: Torva
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $50.00
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Made in America

The dark history that led to Donald Trump

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Is the Donald Trump presidency 'unprecedented', as is so often claimed? Or is it in fact as American as apple pie? Veteran Radio 4 broadcaster Edward Stourton offers a dark retelling of US history with lessons for the present.

Much of what Donald Trump does seems maverick and even mad. His actions and policy pronouncements are a stark rupture from the American style of leadership that we have lived with all our lives. But whether we like them or not, his trade tariffs, his determination to deport tens of thousands of people, and his apparent contempt for the rule of law are deeply rooted in American history.

Since Donald Trump took office plenty of people – on both sides of the Atlantic – have argued that he will destroy his country’s democracy. Made in America shows how the ideal of liberty has been tested in past generations, from the first intolerant Pilgrims to the brutal invasion of Mexico, revealing the dark side of the American Dream in order to offer urgent lessons to our turbulent present.
  • Published: 15 February 2026
  • ISBN: 9781911742111
  • Imprint: Torva
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $50.00
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About the author

Edward Stourton

Edward Stourton has worked in broadcasting for over forty years, and regularly presents BBC Radio Four programmes such as The World at One, The World This Weekend and Sunday. He has been a foreign correspondent for Channel Four, ITN and the BBC, and for ten years he was one of the main presenters of the Today programme.

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Praise for Made in America

A well argued and elegant answer to the question, 'how did America get to this place?' The connection between Donald Trump and American history is too little explored and too little understood: Ed Stourton places him in context and does so with wit and fine judgement... The ideal antidote to the coarseness of the times.

Justin Webb, presenter of Radio 4 Today and Americast, author of The Gift of a Radio

Pithy, entertaining and informative . . . Stourton makes a persuasive case that Trump is a logical outcome of American history

Charlie English, Guardian

'Useful . . . Even if you know much of the history Stourton relates, you may be shocked to have it all set out for you so efficiently.'

Erica Wagner, Observer
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