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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 Trumpβthe 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 Trumpβs penthouse on election night. The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trumpβs 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 whoβd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. Yet Bannonβs hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trumpβs unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldnβt see. Trumpβs 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 Trumpβs rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. Devilβs 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 Clintonβs fall, you have to weave Trumpβs story together with Bannonβs, or else it doesn't make sense.
 Media BuzzPBS News Hour - July 19, 2017
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