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Penguin Press (2022), 351 pages
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"From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington's "swamp" into a gold-plated hot tub--and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult"--
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Mark Leibovich is the winner of a National Magazine Award, a former staffer of the New York Times Magazine, the author of a bestseller about Washington and a recent hire of the Atlantic, one of the hotter, the more serous news websites. In short, he has a byline that arouses expectations of
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thoroughness and thoughtfulness. So one might assume that his new 304-page tome (before the acknowledgments, the notes and the index) would include some new facts or several new insights about his subjects, the Trump sycophants who enabled the most disastrous presidency of modern times. Sadly, Leibovich has almost nothing fresh to tell us. Instead of new information, we get a recycled account of "the dirt that Trump tracked in, the people he broke, and the swamp he did not drain". ... If you want to hear Leibovich reprise all of the softball questions he asked (half of them off the record) of all Trump's sycophants, this book is for you. But if you're interested in explosive new facts about exactly how Trump tried to demolish American democracy, skip this and stay tuned for the next hearing of the House select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Show Less
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LibraryThing member BrianEWilliams
A gossipy chronology of the sad comings and goings during the Trump administration. I'd had enough by 20%. Political junkies and Trump bashers will enjoy it.
LibraryThing member flourgirl49
A rehashing of the Trump presidency and the various ways in which sycophantic enablers degraded themselves to maintain their own power. It's all disgusting, but at least told in a somewhat humorous manner by author Leibovich.
LibraryThing member RickGeissal
This is not just another book about The Former Guy, but a book containing anecdotes and statements by many, many people who have been enablers and sycophants of him, and destroyers of America without remorse. It is sad, enraging, disturbing, disgusting, and extremely well-sourced and -written. I
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enjoyed it very much and am happy to say that it is not ponderous. Show Less
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2022-07-12
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