American Carnage On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

Tim Alberta

eBook - 2019

New York Times Bestseller"Not a conventional Trump-era book. It is less about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the unprecedented capitulation of a political party. This book will endure for helping us understand not what is happening but why it happened.... [An] indispensable work."—Washington PostPolitico 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.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 progressive agenda, coupled... more