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Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author, former White House speechwriter, and Atlantic columnist and media commentator David Frum explains why President Trump has undermined our most important institutions in ways even the most critical media has missed, in this thoughtful and hard-hitting book that is a warning for democracy and America's future,"--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xvi, 725 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker--an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious"-- Provided by publisher....
Author
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous--and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself. In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xii, 578 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 432 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the early days of the Trump presidency, the people who work in the institutions that make America America saw Trump up close in the Oval Office and became convinced that they had to stand up to an unbound president. These officials faced a situation without parallel in American history: What do you do, and who do you call, if you are the only one standing between the president, his extraordinary powers, and the abyss? Michael S. Schmidt's Donald...
Author
Publication Date
2023
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An intimate and revelatory memoir-on personal challenges, political turmoil, and the state of American democracy-from one of the most effective voices in politics, Amy Klobuchar. During the past few years, as our country has faced unprecedented challenges, Senator Klobuchar has been in the room where it happens-on the Senate floor for critical votes during the pandemic, at the debate podium during one of the most critical presidential elections in...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists explain why the Trump presidency poses a threat to the nation and discusses how the citizen activism it has inspired can lead to democratic renewal.
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Power Grab, Jason Chaffetz pulls back the curtain on the world of hypocrisy, political intrigue, and procedural malfeasance that is Washington D.C"-- Provided by publisher.
Democrat anger has grown so irrational that it has burst through the constitutional guardrails which protect our institutions and our republic. Chaffetz pulls back the curtain on the world of hypocrisy, political intrigue, and procedural malfeasance that is Washington D.C.:...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 420 pages : 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The startling inside story of Donald Trump’s first two years in Washington as viewed from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed for advantage as American politics reached a fevered pitch. Taking readers into secret strategy calls and closed-door meetings from the House to the White House, Politico Playbook writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer trace the gamesmanship and the impulsiveness, the dealmaking and the backstabbing,...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, INC
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 275 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes) and occasionally sign a petition or attend a rally. But we mainly "engage" by consuming politics as if it's a sport or a hobby. We soak in daily political gossip and eat up statistics about who's up and who's down. We tweet and post and share. We crave outrage. The hours we spend on politics are...
11) A warning
Publisher
Twelve
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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. -- Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Religious liberty lawyer Asma Uddin has long considered her work defending people of all faiths to be a calling more than a job. Yet even as she seeks equal protection for Evangelicals, Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Native Americans, Jews, and Catholics alike, she has seen an ominous increase in attempts to criminalize Islam and exclude American Muslims from their inalienable rights. Somehow, the view that Muslims aren't human enough for human rights or...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"[A] new collection of stories that boldly examines the changes in American culture over the last two years through the increasing presence of violence, bigotry, sexual harassment, and the emotional costs of living under constant threat. In the title story, the competition between two middle school cellists is affected by a shooting at their school, and it is only years later that they realize how the intrusion of violence affected the course of their...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xx, 360 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Offers a first-hand account of the author's time in the Trump White House, discussing the infighting and leaking he witnessed first-hand and his role in the president's successes and disasters.
15) Enough
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvii, 362 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Cassidy Hutchinson's desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2018.
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
Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In the face of a President who lobs accusations without facts, evidence, or logic, truth tellers are under attack. Meanwhile, the world order is teetering on the brink. North Korea is on the verge of having a nuclear weapon that could reach all of the United States, Russians have mastered a new form of information warfare that undercuts democracy, and the role of China in the global community remains unclear. There will always be value to experience...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"These impossibly cheerful essays on the routine horrors of the present era explain everything from the resurgence of measles to the fiasco of the presidency. In Nothing Is Wrong and Here Is Why, acclaimed Washington Post satirist Alexandra Petri offers perfectly logical, reassuring reasons for everything that has happened in recent American politics and culture that will in no way unsettle your worldview. In essays both new and adapted from her viral...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The highly respected judge and host of "Judge Jeanine Pirro" shares some of the most outrageous falsehoods she has seen behind the high-profile issues and narratives depicted on her show.
"Judge Jeanine writes a first-hand account of the real Trump presidency, based on her interviews with top administration officials, family members and insiders. This is the story the Fake News media doesn't want you to hear! At this point in American history, we...

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