Kuala Lampur, Oct. 16 -- The United States has long portrayed itself as the world's most enduring constitutional democracy.

Yet beneath its impressive economic, military and technological achievements lies a society increasingly divided by inequality, political polarisation and declining confidence in its institutions.

In his ambitious and provocative book on the possibility of a Second American Revolution, Datuk Lee Boon Chye offers a penetrating examination of these contradictions.

The exact title is "The Creative Destruction of The American Democracy: Trump 2.0 and the 2nd American Revolution," published under the VinLin Press.

Lee's central argument is that America's political institutions, once responsible for its extraordinary r...