Buch 2020: Gegen die Demokratie

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Buch 2020: Gegen die Demokratie

24. Februar 2020
Noch ein Enthüllungsbuch…

Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig
erschienen: 21.1.2020, Penguin Press (US), Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
465 S., ISBN 9781984877499. 
Auch als Hörbuch und E-Book. Aktuell nur in Englisch

„This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date.“ (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)

Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump’s unique presidency with shocking new reporting and insight into its implications..

„I alone can fix it.“ So went Donald J. Trump’s march to the presidency on July 21, 2016, when he accepted the Republican presidential nomination in Cleveland, promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation.

Yet over the subsequent years, as he has undertaken the actual work of the commander in chief, it has been hard to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. It would be all too easy to mistake Trump’s first term for one of pure and uninhibited chaos, but there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration is loyalty — not to the country, but to the president himself — and Trump’s North Star has been the perpetuation of his own power, even when it meant imperiling our shaky and mistrustful democracy
Leonnig and Rucker, with deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, DC, tell of rages and frenzies but also moments of courage and perseverance. Relying on scores of exclusive new interviews with some of the most senior members of the Trump administration and other firsthand witnesses, the authors reveal the 45th president up close, taking listeners inside Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation as well as the president’s own haphazard but ultimately successful legal defense. 

Here, for the first time, certain officials who have felt honor-bound not to publicly criticize a sitting president or to divulge what they witnessed in a position of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history.

This peerless and gripping narrative reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished and exposes how decision making in his administration has been driven by a reflexive logic of self-preservation and self-aggrandizement – but a logic nonetheless. This is the story of how an unparalleled president has scrambled to survive and tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation.

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