The divider : Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
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Peter BAKER and Susan GLASSER. The divider : Trump in the White House, 2017-2021. New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023, xvi, 731p.
The Divider is the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale--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. Revered journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired. The Divider brings us into the Oval Office, revealing how the nation's top general wrote a secret resignation letter accusing Trump of harming the country, how his own intelligence director thought Trump was compromised by Vladimir Putin, and how the first lady told her husband he was botching the Covid-19 pandemic. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those around Trump--how they justified working for a man they considered unfit for office, and where they drew their lines.
The Divider is the inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale--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. Revered journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired. The Divider brings us into the Oval Office, revealing how the nation's top general wrote a secret resignation letter accusing Trump of harming the country, how his own intelligence director thought Trump was compromised by Vladimir Putin, and how the first lady told her husband he was botching the Covid-19 pandemic. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those around Trump--how they justified working for a man they considered unfit for office, and where they drew their lines.