David McCloskey\u2019s new book depicts a calamitous collapse of the \u2018special relationship\u2019 \u2013 could things get darker still?<\/p>\n
The \u201cspecial relationship\u201d, the time-honored emotional bond between the US and Britain that has sustained through war and peace, is in trouble.<\/p>\n
The ties of history, culture and language that have bridged an ocean and bound the two countries politically for generations are fraying as perhaps never before \u2013 strained relentlessly by Donald Trump, who has gleefully sacrificed traditional alliances and diplomatic niceties on the altar of his \u201cAmerica first\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n
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