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Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
Penguin Press
July 2017
On Sale: July 18, 2017
288 pages
ISBN: 0735225028
EAN: 9780735225022
Kindle: B0728KHFD5
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Non-Fiction Political
From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes
the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve
Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the rise of
the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden
forces that drove the greatest upset in American political
history. Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years,
Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from
its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and
reality television to its culmination inside Trump’s
penthouse on election night. The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump’s flagging
presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political
Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the
meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing
pugilist who’d never run a campaign and was despised by
Democrats and Republicans alike. Yet Bannon’s hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate,
years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for
Trump’s unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark
but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke
to voters whom others couldn’t see. Trump’s campaign was the
final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building
up in America for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable
mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right
global uprising that would change the world. Any study of Trump’s rise to the presidency is unavoidably a
study of Bannon. Devil’s Bargain is a tour-de-force telling
of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that decided
the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon and his
allies, who really did plot a vast, right-wing conspiracy to
stop Clinton. To understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clinton’s fall,
you have to weave Trump’s story together with Bannon’s, or
else it doesn't make sense.
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