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    Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
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    Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
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    Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

    Written by Joshua Green

    Narrated by Fred Sanders

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    About this audiobook

    The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.

    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.

    Editor's Note

    Bannon’s lingering influence…

    One of the first post-mortems of the 2016 presidential election, “Devil's Bargain” focuses on the influence of Steve Bannon and the right-wing populist furor he helped stoke. Bannon may be out of the White House, but he's far from gone. This book helps us understand his past influence and consider his potential continued impact on American politics.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 18, 2017
    ISBN9780525589303
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    Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
    Author

    Joshua Green

    Joshua Green is a senior national correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek, focusing on political coverage for the magazine and Bloomberg News. Previously, Green was a senior editor of the Atlantic, a weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe, and an editor at the Washington Monthly. He has also written for the New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Green regularly appears on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, NBC's Meet the Press, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, and PBS’s Washington Week.

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    • 5/5
      Riveting for 95%, I look forward to the next installment.

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    • 5/5
      First time reading/listening to a Joshua Green. Absolutely riveting! definitely buying a hard copy.

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    • 5/5
      Fantastic insight into Trump's inner circle. Bannon in particular is a much more interesting person than I expected. A fascinating story all the way through.

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