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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

by Peter Baker; Susan Glasser

Doubleday ·2022 ·752 pages
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From top journalists and bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington, the first history and assessment of the full Trump presidency, based on unprecedented access to key players, including the man himself Revered journalists Peter Baker of the New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker tell the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington and the institutions of American democracy, from its chaotic beginning to its violent finale. While other books have looked at parts of the Trump era, this is the only history of the entire disruptive Trump presidency, recounting not just what happened during his dramatic final days in office but the four years that led up to them. Trump was an X-ray for America's soul, and Baker and Glasser reveal the behind-closed-doors moments of a president who defied all norms and the moral struggles of those who worked with and for him. Their book is based on unprecedented access to key players from President Trump himself to Cabinet officers, military generals, close advisers, Trump family members, congressional leaders, foreign officials and others, some of whom have never told their story until now.


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"Yet the husband-and-wife team of Baker and Glasser pull it off with assurance ..."

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"The story continues, but Baker and Glasser give readers an indispensable starting point."

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"meticulously researched and beautifully written."

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"Baker and Glasser, enriching their own reporting with the juiciest material from the slew of books about the Trump presidency, fashion a coherent narrative out of the chaos, offering lucid and insightful accounts of the Muslim travel ban, talks with North Korea's Kim Jong-un, the Mueller investigation, Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, both impeachment trials, and more."

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"is, in many ways, a marker of how much journalism has adapted."

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"For them, this could be like a child's first encounter with Harry Potter or an adolescent's first taste of Tolkien ..."

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