Analysing what ails America

Someday, an intellectual historian cite both these books to lament that the contemporaries are not as eloquent that arose in Trump's era to combat the threats to our way of life

THE POLITICS OF PETULANCE   

America in an Age of Immaturity

Alan Wolfe  

The University of Chicago Press

210 pages; $25 

AMERICA, COMPROMISED  

Lawrence Lessig  

The University of Chicago Press

251 pages; $24 

Among US President Donald Trump’s major accomplishments is the booming industry in books about him, his administration, the state of democracy in America, the rise of autocracy in America and abroad, the reasons for his rise, the bases of his support, the state of the Republican Party, the state of his mental health or lack thereof, the chaos in his White House and so on. Not all are strictly about Mr Trump — the fact is