How American Democracy Became a Crisis Case. Manfred Berg, one of the best experts on the USA, narrates the long story of a growing divide that has brought the country to the brink of a new civil war. His brilliantly written book offers a comprehensive presentation and analysis of the political, economic, social, and cultural conflicts that enabled Donald Trump's rise, but which will not disappear when he leaves the political stage.

In the 1950s, the USA was seen as a model of stable democracy, characterized by a broad consensus on social and political order. However, in the 1960s, this consensus shattered amid disputes over the Vietnam War, racial conflict, and the cultural revolution of the Radical Sixties. In the following decades, globalization, immigration, changing values, and media revolution dramatically transformed American society, while simultaneously leading to relentless culture wars and a long-underestimated surge of polarization and radicalization, particularly affecting the conservative milieu. Today, red and blue states, Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals stand as irreconcilable enemies. American democracy has become a crisis case. This book provides comprehensive historical orientation for those who wish to understand the crisis of American democracy and its recent history.