From American Exceptionalism to WOKE! Radical Betrayal tells the full story…
For many, the election of Donald Trump in 2016 was a dream come true. Millions saw him as a redeemer destined to make America great again. For others, his election came as a shock and established forces and institutions immediately began to conspire to wreck his presidency. Now, years after leaving the White House, the frenzy to lock Trump up is turning the U.S. into a banana republic.
How can a single event provoke such strong reactions and dangerous outcomes? This book goes beyond the banalities of Trump haters, media bias, and academic prejudice to explain this phenomenon and answer underlying questions. It shows that to understand modern America, we must recall what the Founding Fathers wanted the country to become and compare it with what it has become.
In detail, Radical Betrayal identifies the origin of American Exceptionalism and tracks its role in the nation’s rise from a handful of breakaway colonies to a superpower surpassing the Roman Empire in wealth and influence. It also shows how America’s greatness is crumbling as the Founders’ vision has been corrupted by forces on both the left and the right.
Radical Betrayal is a must-read for everyone who wishes to understand the crisis happening in today’s America!
Reviews
An immigrant to our country from a European nation further along the path of leftist degradation, like Tocqueville and Lukacs, the author’s perspective as a sympathetic and admiring outsider allows him to perceive facets of our country and its decline that escape even the most perceptive domestic observers.
~ Christopher Roach, Adjunct Fellow at Center for American Greatness
The American Founders knew what they were doing. There could be no US without American Exceptionalism. America was a democratic ideal as well as a country with borders. Then in the Twentieth Century progressives hijacked American Exceptionalism. They replaced it with failed ideologies, like socialism and endless foreign wars, and twisted the very idea of American Exceptionalism itself. Fortunately, we have Edwardsson’s book to tell us in rich detail how it all happened and what Americans can do to counter liberals and neoconservatives and become truly exceptional again.
~ Stephen M Thompson, PhD, Co-author of Margaret Thatcher on Leadership: Lesson for American Conservatives Today
About the Author
Anders W. Edwardsson was born in the small village of Dalskog, Sweden. Growing up with family members who had emigrated to America but returned to Sweden, he became fascinated by U.S. history early in life. As a ten-year-old watching Ronald Reagan being elected president in 1980, he also developed a profound interest in politics. In 1988, he became one of Sweden’s youngest members of a local parliament and acted as deputy campaign leader for the New Democracy party in 1991. However, after politics and short careers in journalism and business, Anders decided to pursue academic studies. In 1997, he began to study at Uppsala University, from which he received an M.A. in History in 2002. After also studying U.S. history for a year at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, he returned to Europe to fulfill a childhood dream by working as an archeologist in Ireland and the U.K. And after moving back to Sweden in 2007, he became a syndicated columnist and authored two books on Swedish history. Still, America had become home, and after receiving a full-time scholarship in 2011, he decided to return and study a Ph.D. in Politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. There, Anders also met and married his wife Jen in 2012. He became a U.S. citizen in 2016 and currently works as an author and media commentator outside Tampa, Florida. There he enjoys riding his bike to town to work in the shade of a palm tree. He also appreciates good friends, exotic foods, and cats (especially the two who helped write this book).
