"This work focuses on the role of nationalist ideologies and policy prescriptions arising in nation-states around the world and highlights the rise of contemporary American nationalism in relation to the Tea Party that turned into the Alt-Right movement, encompassing traditional…
Donald Trump's niece, Mary L. Trump, examines America's national trauma, rooted in our history but dramatically exacerbated by the impact of current events and the Trump administration's corrupt and immoral policies. Our failure to acknowledge this trauma, let alone root it out,…
"How, Peters asks, did conservative values that Republicans claimed to cherish, like small government, fiscal responsibility, and morality in public service, get completely eroded as an unshakable faith in Donald Trump grew to define the party? The answer is a tale traced across…
"Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation's foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump's presidency-and won. After the sudden shock of Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton i…
"Drawing on social science and communications theory, Gonzo Governance offers a new interpretation of Presidential power that shifts focus to the media dynamics that surrounded Donald Trump - emphasizing how these changes informed his electoral strategies as well as the insurrec…
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest,…
"The Kennedys meet the Kardashians in this dishy, deeply reported, and richly detailed look at President Trump's five children, exploring their lives, roles in the campaign and administration, and the relationships to their father and each other. Full of surprising insights and …
The need for truth / Roger Scruton -- Values without borders / Elizabeth Cobbs -- At the heart of freedom : economic liberty / Deirdre McCloskey -- Civics and civility / Michael Signer -- In praise of globalization / Jagdish Bhagwati -- The centrality of dissent / Natan Sharansk…
"Looking back at this moment in history, historians will ask if Americans knew they were living through the first case of criminal conspiracy between an American presidential candidate turned commander in chief and a geopolitical enemy. The answer might be: it was hard to see th…
What if there's another side to Donald Trump? A sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing The Donald's words for signs of poetry.What he found was a revelation. By simply taking the President Elect's tweets and transcripts, cutting them up and reor…
Chronicles the forty-fifth president's years wooing Russian deal-makers and financiers to reveal the people, dealings, and events that suggest how indebted Trump is to Russia. "In the early 1990s, a famous real estate tycoon--a regular in Manhattan gossip columns and on celebri…
"It has been called the political crime of the century: a foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader, secretly interfering with the American presidential election to help elect the candidate of its choice. Now two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post nationa…
Authoritative, timely, and provocative, this deeply researched biography of Donald Trump provides a complex portrait of the man who--despite broad skepticism--could be the next president of the United States. Despite decades of scrutiny, many aspects of Trump's life are not well…
Trump and the media
Introduction / Pablo J. Boczkowski & Zizi Papacharissi -- Journalism in question. Why journalism in the age of Trump shouldn't surprise us / Barbie Zelizer -- Alternative facts: Donald Trump and the emergence of a new U.S. media regime / Michael X. Delli Carpini -- Trump and the…
Annotation
Understanding Trump requires a willingness to study and learn from him. His principles grow out of five decades of business and celebrity success. Trump behaves differently than traditional politicians because his entire life experience has been different than most traditional p…
Thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff tells the story of the stormy first nine months of Donald Trump's term as President. Among the revelations: What President Trump's staff really thinks of him -- What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President…