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Moreover, your question the point exactly I think. Exponential sums are such a fundamental tool in applications for number theory, I thought there would be some good blackbox approaches.
My teacher wants a book with recent results, therefore Besicovitch's book, for example, is problematic (unless there's a newer edition than the 1935's one and then it's great).