As promised,
America
draws the curtain this Wednesday, January 20, 2021, the day of inauguration of the new American president and of the release of his last issue.
After sixteen publications, the quarterly review launched in spring 2017, just after Donald Trump's arrival at the White House, has fulfilled its mission: to deconstruct American myths through the eyes of authors on both sides of the Atlantic. , during the four years of a mandate which promised to be chaotic and which indeed was.
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The idea of
America
germinated in the minds of literary critic François Busnel ("La Grande Librairie" on France 5) and journalist Éric Fottorino (
Le 1
,
Zadig
) at the end of 2016.
"The project was born out of amazement. facing the election of Trump,
says Julien Bisson, editor-in-chief of
America
.
We were overwhelmed with information assuring its defeat.
And when Trump was elected, we told ourselves we had to paint a clear and meticulous portrait of this America, full of divisions described by writers
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