Together with Avenue Bookstore and Gasworks, Sorrento Writers Festival presents Don Watson and The Shortest History of the United States of America. Join us for this special “in conversation” event with award-winning author Don Watson, and journalist and Sorrento Writers Festival Director Corrie Perkin, as they discuss his extraordinary new book The Shortest History of the United States of America.
Don has written many times about the United States, its landscape, its people, and its peculiar brand of politics. Who better to put together the story of its history, as viewed during the time of Donald Trump’s second administration? And what an important time for non-Americans to learn a bit about the so-called ‘leader of the free world’? As Don Watson writes: ‘Men like Donald Trump are embedded in US history, mythology and popular culture. Rank populists, hucksters, fakers, grifters, rent-seekers, blowhards, tycoons, kleptocrats, narcissists, psychopaths and delinquents – or, from the other point of view, rugged individualists, entrepreneurs, men of vision, men of destiny, instruments of God. No diorama of mainstream American life in any era could be without them.’
