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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"[A] book critic of The Washington Post digs into the books of the Trump era and ... [asserts] that our response to this presidency often reflects the same polarization, contradictions, and resentments that made it possible"--
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Will they do so again in 2020? Looking for answers, Muravchik and Shields lived in three such "flipped" blue communities, finding that these voters still like the Democratic Party, but it's not the party many of this book's readers will recognize. In these communities, some of the most beloved and longest-serving Democratic leaders are themselves Trumpian-grandiose, combative, thin-skinned, nepotistic. Indifferent to ideology, they promise to take...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The shocking, definitive account of the lawyers and media tycoons who enabled the rise of Donald Trump, featuring new revelations from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal team. With his blunt-force fame and the myths hes propagated about himself, Donald Trump has always moved in a world of gossip barons, crooked lawyers, and porn stars. But when he became the Republican nominee for the presidency in 2016, all of these characters crawled out...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A generational work that, using television, reframes America's identity through the rattled mind of a septuagenarian, insomniac, cable-news-junkie president. In the tradition of great cultural figures like Marshall McLuhan and Neil Postman, New York Times chief television critic James Poniewozik traces the history of television and mass media from the early 1980s to today, and demonstrates how a "volcanic, camera- hogging antihero" merged with America's...
Author
Publisher
Crown Forum
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Donald Trump is exactly the disaster we feared for America. Hated by a majority of Americans, Trump's administration is rocked by daily scandals, and he's embarrassed us at home and abroad. Trump can't win in 2020, right? Wrong. As 2016 proved, Trump can't win, but the Democrats can sure as hell lose. Only one thing can save Trump, and that's a Democratic candidate who runs the race Trump wants them to run instead of the campaign they must run to...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Following the great success of his New York Times bestseller DUMPTY, comes award-winning actor and national bestselling author John Lithgow's next book of satirical poetry chronicling Trump and his administration--with poems of the impeachment and beyond"--
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Alexander details President Trump's efforts to make money off of politics. He takes us inside the exclusive clubs, luxury hotels, overseas partnerships, commercial properties, and personal mansions while tracking hundreds of millions of dollars flowing freely between big businesses and President Trump. The presidency opened up new opportunities: Trump's commercial and residential property portfolio morphed into a one-of-a-kind marketplace, through...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Since the day Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign, the left has waged a demented war against him. Liberals used to pride themselves on their ultra-hipness, but Trump has turned them into weeping little girls in pink party dresses. The very people who once mocked right-wingers for (allegedly) overreacting to every little thing are now the ones hyperventilating and hatching insane conspiracy theories. During the campaign, and even more...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he acts against their own interests? To fully understand, John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joined with Bob Altemeyer, a professor of psychology with a unique area of expertise: Authoritarianism. Relying on social science findings and psychological...
72) A warning
Language
English
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Description
An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital. --
73) Trump and me
Author
Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"An updated portrait of the business mogul and presidential candidate, written by his long-suffering chronicler and the author of Funny Money, traces Trump's rise as an unlikely tribune of populist rage, political artifice and fantasy-based performance artistry,"--NoveList.
Author
Language
English
Description
With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump's White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Since Donald Trump was nominated for president, Keith Olbermann has emerged as one of America's most acerbic, insightful, and inspirational anti-Trump commentators. In his hit GQ Web series T/Je Resistance, Olbermann consistently takes our commander in chief and his indecipherable politics apart with journalistic acuity and rhetorical Hair. Tough, cutting, Witty; and relentlessly hard-hitting, Olbermann's monologues have garnered him a new generation...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine you have just been elected president. You are now commander-in-chief, chief executive, chief diplomat, chief legislator, chief of party, chief voice of the people, first responder, chief priest, and world leader. You're expected to fulfill your campaign promises, but you're also expected to solve the urgent crises of the day. What's on your to-do list? Where would you even start? The American presidency is in trouble. It has become overburdened,...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Prism, an imprint of Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning actor and bestselling author John Lithgow wields a whip-smart, satirical pen in this poetic diatribe chronicling the last few abysmal years in politics. With lacerating wit, he takes readers verse by verse through the history of Donald Trump's presidency, lampooning the likes of Betsy DeVos, Anthony Scaramucci, Scott Pruitt, Paul Manafort, Trump's doctors, and many others. Illustrated from cover to cover with Lithgow's never-before-seen...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Using FBI documents, Bongino unspools a complex sequence of corruption behind desperate multimillion-dollar plans to stop Trump's re-election. He reveals the outrageous actions of Robert Mueller's investigators, delves into the disturbing presence of Obama's fixer, and shows that the case against Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was stoked by a Flynn-fixated paid operative. In the final chapter, Bongino shows how COVID-19 mutated from a killer plague in Wuhan...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Beginning in late 2015, political operatives, intelligence officials, and the press pushed a conspiracy theory about Trump--he was a Russian asset and spied on his campaign and his presidency in order to undo an election. In their zeal to bring down the president, these Deep State conspirators have unwittingly revealed the origins of the anti-Trump operation.
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