American Carnage
Politico Magazine s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider s look at the making of the modern Republican Party how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents Donald J Trump.The 2016 election was a watershed for the United States But, as Tim Alberta explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump s victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its most manifest consequence.American Carnage is the story of a president s rise based on a country s evolution and a party s collapse As George W Bush left office with record low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning They had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party s base Yet Obama s forceful pursuit of his progressive agenda, coupled with the nation s rapidly changing societal and demographic identity, lit a fire under the right, returning Republicans to power and inviting a bloody struggle for the party s identity in the post Bush era The factions that emerged one led by absolutists like Jim Jordan and Ted Cruz, the other led by pragmatists like John Boehner and Mitch McConnell engaged in a series of devastating internecine clashes and attempted coups for control With the GOP s internal fissures rendering it legislatively impotent, and that impotence fueling a growing resentment toward the political class and its institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party When Trump descended a gilded escalator to announce his run in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment.Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade long civil war inside the GOP and of the parallel sense of cultural, socioeconomic, and technological disruption during that period can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America s current turmoil How did a party once obsessed with national insolvency come to champion trillion dollar deficits How did the party of compassionate conservatism become the party of Muslim bans and family separation How did the party of family values elect a thrice married philanderer And, most important, how long can such a party survive Loaded with explosive original reporting and based off hundreds of exclusive interviews including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Reince Priebus, among many others American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period as we ve never seen it before and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of this political era. Best Download [ American Carnage ] By [ Tim Alberta ] – kino-fada.fr There was absolutely nothing new in this book that a regular reader of the New York Times and reader of political blogs and twitter would not have already known I stopped this book near the half way point where Trump was winning the Iowa caucus and lying Ted was trying to make a comeback and little Rubio the freedom caucus favorite was self inflicting For those who raved about this book, I would challenge them to find me one fact that wasn t generally already known by most political foll There was absolutely nothing new in this book that a regular reader of the New York Times and reader of political blogs and twitter would not have already known I stopped this book near the half way point where Trump was winning the Iowa caucus and lying Ted was trying to make a comeback and little Rubio the freedom caucus favorite was self inflicting For those who raved about this book, I would challenge them to find me one fact that wasn t generally already known by most political followers except some of the self serving spin provided by the people the author had obviously interviewed The author compounds his familiar story telling by shading it with the narrative from those he interviewed such as Boehner, Cantor, and Ryan He tells their story by blaming the Democrats such as Obama for not compromising with the Republicans and therefore creating a political mess that leads to Trump What the author tries to unconvincingly show is the Democrats are to blame for creating Trump rathe...The latest entry in books looking at Donald Trump and his presidency is American Carnage , by Politico author Tim Alberta He takes a slightly different tack than many books about Trump in that he examines Trump s place in the Republican Party In fact, the book is as much an examination of the party of Trump as it is about Donald Trump, himself The book is described as rollicking but I truly don t think the last two years of the Donald Trump presidency can be described with any humor Tim A The latest entry in books looking at Donald Trump and his presidency is American Carnage , by Politico author Tim Alberta He takes a slightly different tack than many books about Trump in that he examines Trump s place in the Republican Party In fact, the book is as much an examination of the party of Trump as it is about Donald Trump, himself The book is described as rollicking but I truly ...POLITICO s Tim Alberta, author of American Carnage Harper , asked a blissfully retired John Boehner over lunch whether he believed that the Republican Party could survive Trumpism Boehner s response There is no Rep Here he stops, hesitates, and when pressed, offers There is a Republican Party But what does that even mean Donald Trump s not a Republican He s not a Democrat He s a populist After nearly three years of finger wagging I told you sos bandied about by pundits and com POLITICO s Tim Alberta, author of American Carnage Harper , asked a blissfully retired John Boehner over lunch whether he believed that the Republican Party could survive Trumpism Boehner s response There is no Rep Here he stops, hesitates, and when pressed, offers There is a Republican Party But what does that even mean Donald Trump s not a Republican He s not a Democrat He s a populist After nearly three years of finger wagging I told you sos bandied about by pundits and commentators who blame Donald Trump s surprise 2016 win on everything from millennial ambivalence to an immensely unpop...This is an outstanding book The author does an extraordinary job of telling what happened in the Republican party over the last ten years and what happened to our political world during that time period It reads like a novel where the author laments the state of the world we find ourselves in There are no evil people, just people who compromised themselves, abandoned principles, justified what they did, and failed to take account of the results of their lack of principles.He is a first rate s This is an outstanding book The author does an extraordinary job of telling what happened in the Republican party over the last ten years and what happened to our political world during that time period It reads like a novel where the author laments the state of the world we find ourselves in There are no evil people, just people who compromised themselves, abandoned principles, justified what they did, and failed to take account of the results of their lack of principles.He is a first rate storyteller and he tells stories of importance He makes appropriate editorial comments along the way and he paints full portraits of all the people he write...Meh Not what I expected Returning to library and moving on.Wow It s hard to believe this book is real, and not fiction Loaded with interviews from major players Trump, Ryan, Bohner, Cruz etc etc this book is an authoritative text on the rise of Donald Trump and the tectonic shifts in the the Republican Party Alberta s hypothesis is simple The Bush administration left republicans tired and defeated There were me young leaders to take the reins, no infusion of conservative thought, and a dwindling difference between Republicans and Democrats Betwe Wow It s hard to believe this book is real, and not fiction Loaded with interviews from major players Trump, Ryan, Bohner, Cruz etc etc this book is an authoritative text on the rise of Donald Trump and the tectonic shifts in the the Republican Party Alberta s hypothesis is simple The Bush administration left republicans tired and defeated There were me young leaders to take the reins, no infusion of conservative thought, and a dwindling difference between Republicans and Democrats Between 2008 and 2015 Republicans engaged in a civil war between ideological side of the party All along the way warning signs popped up that someone like Trump would come along and take control of the party Early players like the Tea Party and Sarah Palin showed a massive shift in the patty and an increasingly out of touch establishment Alberta meticulously documents this Republican Civil war and the rise of Trump Relying on first hand accounts from major Republican Players, including Trump himself, Alberta weaves...Solid reporting, good analysisAlberta does a great job tracking the final devolution of the modern Republican Party into the irrational, power mad monster it is today From the rise of the Tea Party to current the descent into Trumpism, this is a fascinating and chilling portrait of a political party in its apparent and still dangerous death throws But there s some context missing here I understand why Alberta chose to focus on how the party changed after the election of Obama, but to truly Solid reporting, good analysisAlberta does a great job tracking the final devolution of the modern Republican Party into the irrational, power mad monster it is today From the rise of the Tea Party to current the descent into Trumpism, this is a fascinating and chilling portrait of a political party in its apparent and still dangerous death throws But there s some context missing here I understand why Alberta chose to focus on how the party changed after the election of Obama, but to truly understand where we re at I think he needed to go back further, at least to Gingrich and possibly to Reagan Even some sort of summary would have been helpful We open with a Republican Party already in crisis, so it s hard to see the 30,000 foot view It s like watching the last 20 seconds of a multi car pileup I would have liked to have seenof the incremental decisions that lead to the initial collision.That said, for ...A fairly comprehensive yet painfully lifeless and mediocre history of the.present The only thing here that hasn t been reported better elsewhere by reporters less interested in flattering Republicans for dubious reasons is the primary contest between Trump and Cruz, so if you can find those chapters excerpted elsewhere, you will get all you need from this one.It is actually a colossal failure that this journalist manages to talk about the current Republican party without seeming to venture A fairly comprehensive yet painfully lifeless and mediocre history of the.present The only thing here that hasn t been reported better elsewhere by reporters less interested in flattering Republicans for dubious reasons is the primary contest between Trump and Cruz, so if you can find those chapters excerpted elsewhere, you will ge...First draft of our shared historyReading far too many of these as it happens histories for my personal health, this was nevertheless a worthwhile investment This is the book I would pass on to my grandchildren, who hopefully will ask what was it like rather than no dinner tonight Papa, our pain is not yet avenged Highly recommended to all who have the fortitude to read about what we re experiencing, and especially recommended for my great grandchildren To them I say Kids, I have no ide First draft of our shared historyReading far too many of these as it happens histories for my personal health, this was nevertheless a worthwhile investment This is the book I would pass on to my grandchildren, who hopefully will ask what was it like rather than no dinner tonight Papa, our pain is not yet avenged Highly recommended to all who have the fortitude to read about what we re experiencing, and especi...Incredibly Well Researched and EngagingThis book is a terrific look at the civil war that has taken place within the Republican Party Trump isn t didn t just happen overnight and this book researched the process from its start to the present day I could hardly put it down once I started reading it.You can tell this is a true piece of journalism in the fact that it doesn t pander to one political side or the other When praise is due, it is given When flaws are shown, they are shown on both si Incredibly Well Researched and EngagingThis book is a terrific look at the civil war that has taken place within the Republican Party Trump isn t didn t just happen overnight and this book researched the process from its start to the present day I could hardly put it down once I started reading it.You can tell this is a true piece of journalism in the fact that it doesn t pander to one political side or the other Whe...ExHAUSTively reported and exhausting to read No new information, no really new insights into the Trump Administration Mostly an almost minute by minute recounting of Trump s rise to power Thoroughly depressing and disheartening.
- 12 January 2017 Tim Alberta
- Hardcover
- 688 pages
- 006289644X
- Tim Alberta
- American Carnage