'Riveting . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN 'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVER The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius 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, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency's inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail. Focused on Trump and the key players around him-the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members- Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. These witnesses to history tell the story of him longing to deploy the military to the streets of American cities to crush the protest movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, all to bolster his image of strength ahead of the election. These sources saw firsthand his refusal to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously-even to the point of allowing himself and those around him to be infected. This is a story of a nation sabotaged-economically, medically, and politically-by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump's supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled-and who foiled-Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.
Show more'Riveting . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN 'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVER The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius 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, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency's inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail. Focused on Trump and the key players around him-the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members- Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. These witnesses to history tell the story of him longing to deploy the military to the streets of American cities to crush the protest movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, all to bolster his image of strength ahead of the election. These sources saw firsthand his refusal to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously-even to the point of allowing himself and those around him to be infected. This is a story of a nation sabotaged-economically, medically, and politically-by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump's supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled-and who foiled-Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.
Show moreThe definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius
Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The
Washington Post, where she has worked since 2000, covering Donald
Trump’s presidency and previous administrations. She won the 2015
Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security failures and
misconduct inside the Secret Service. She also was part of the Post
teams awarded Pulitzers in 2018, for reporting on Russia’s
interference in the 2016 presidential election, and in 2014, for
revealing the U.S. government’s secret, broad surveillance of
Americans. Leonnig is an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC
and the author of Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret
Service.
Philip Rucker is the senior Washington correspondent at The
Washington Post and led its coverage of President Trump and his
administration as White House Bureau chief. He and a team of Post
reporters won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their
reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential
election. In 2021, the White House Correspondents’ Association
honored Rucker with the Aldo Beckman Award for overall excellence
in White House coverage. Rucker joined the Post in 2005 and
previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the
2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. He serves as an on-air
political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and graduated from Yale
University with a degree in history.
A blockbuster follow-up to A Very Stable Genius . . . I Alone Can
Fix It pulls back the curtain on the handling of Covid-19, the
re-election bid and its chaotic and violent aftermath . . .
[Leonnig and Rucker's] book is essential reading. They have
receipts, which they lay out for all to see
*Guardian*
[An] incisive, dramatic and masterful account of former US
president Donald Trump's last year in office
*Spectrum*
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