the Dismantling of America: Trump, Systemic Collapse and Post-American World

In the long arc of history, empires do not fall in a single day. The Dismantling of America is a profound, unflinching investigation into the slow, inexorable unravelling of the United States as a global superpower. Author James E. Isham argues that American decline is not merely a political failure but a systemic collapse, accelerated by imperial overreach, deep social polarisation, and the hollowing out of democratic norms.Centring on the 2026 war against Iran as a "catalyst" for this acceleration, Isham traces the anatomy of American decline across diplomatic, economic, and cultural registers. The book examines the "spectacle of empty power"-a political system paralysed by bipartisan strife and captured by special interests-and the "corrosion" of the American Dream itself, now beset by profound alienation and internal division.Isham avoids prophecy and partisan rhetoric, offering instead a sober "exercise in mourning" and a meditation on what has been lost. By confronting the brutal reality of an "edifice that cracks beyond repair", this work challenges readers to discard the myths of exceptionalism and unlimited power. It asks a difficult, necessary question: can a nation, in its hour of greatest trial, summon the courage to let go of what it has been to become what it must be?Neither a call for restoration nor a work of despair, The Dismantling of America is an urgent demand for a new, wiser purpose. It is a vital, essential guide for understanding the shifting contours of our post-American world.

Pagina's: 238, Paperback, Global East-West (London)