Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (513 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0719WWK98 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 595 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I love that, while the author obviously doesn't share Bannon's" according to Buckeye lifer. Couldn't put it down. I love that, while the author obviously doesn't share Bannon's worldview, to put it mildly, the book isn't polemical -- it gets out of the way of the story. And what a story. My goodness. I suspect that if you hate Trump you'll be horrified and entertained, and if you love Trump you'll be delighted and entertained, and that's very high praise. I didn;t know that the wall wasn't Trump's idea; that's sort of ironic.. Epic tale of Trump's shocking win. sam jacobs I could not put this down--the characters, the humor, the intensity. If you still don't understand how Trump became president against all odds , simply read this book. You may not like the folks you meet in Joshua Green's epic, but you will not soon forget them .. A Timely and Credible Book - I dislike politically-focused books written by authors with a slant. This is not one of those. Instead, it is balanced and quite timely.Green characterizes Bannon as a brilliant ideologue from the outer-fringe of American politics, and an opportunistic businessman with a great distaste for Hillary. Green contends that DJT's being embarrassed at the 2011 White House Correspondent's Dinner by President Obama and Seth Meyers was the catalyst that put Trump on the path to the White House. Obama zeroed in on the birth-certificate controversy that Trump had endorsed, produced a copy several days prior to
To understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clinton's fall, you have to weave Trump's story together with Bannon's, or else it doesn't make sense.. Any study of Trump's rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump - the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history. It's a story that happened only due to a remark