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Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within

Don Watson

Written by
Don Watson
Read by
Don Watson
Length
2 hrs 31 min
Rating
4.5 / 5
Series
Quarterly Essays
Publisher
Audible Studios
Released
2016-09-02

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Politics & GovernmentReligious Studies

What it is

In Essay 63, with characteristic wit and acuity, Don Watson takes us on a journey into the heart of the United States in the year 2016. Plunging into the apparent chaos of the presidential campaign and tracing America's recent past, he puts Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Bernie Sanders in a larger frame. He considers the irresistible pull - for Americans - of American exceptionalism, and asks whether this creed is reaching its limit.

He explores alternative paths the United States could have taken, and asks where its present course might lead Australia as a dutiful ally.

About the series

Quarterly Essays in order →

Quarterly Essays — 78 books, showing the 24 around this one

  1. · Latham's World: The New Politics of the Outsiders
  2. · Quarterly Essay 98: Hard New World: Our Post-American Future5.0
  3. · Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny4.6
  4. · Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood4.7
  5. · Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation3.4
  6. · The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction4.0
  7. · Quarterly Essay 74: The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost4.5
  8. · Love & Money: The Family and the Free Market
  9. · Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within4.5
  10. · Quarterly Essay 83: Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power4.6
  11. · Quarterly Essay 65: The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race4.0
  12. · Quarterly Essay 61: Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession & Renewal4.8
  13. · The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows4.0
  14. · Quarterly Essay 85: Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia4.5
  15. · His Master's Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate under Howard4.3
  16. · Quarterly Essay 52: Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World4.0
  17. · Quarterly Essay 44: Man Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet4.0
  18. · Quarterly Essay 80: The High Road: What Australia Can Learn from New Zealand5.0
  19. · Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull4.6
  20. · The History Question: Who Owns the Past?4.5
  21. · Quarterly Essay 96: Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics3.0
  22. · Quarterly Essay 60: Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern4.3
  23. · Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals4.3
  24. · Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing3.6

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