Devils Bargain

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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. Free Download [ Devils Bargain ] by [ Joshua Green ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Joshua Green s book was a bestseller from the minute it hit the shelves Is it a great book Almost, IMHO It certainty made me feel almost physically ill seeing the utter depravity of Bannon and Drumpf as they mounted their assault on America in 2015 2016 It definitely reassured me in my previous statements see my reviews of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth and It Can t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis that we are living in a dystopia where populist ideals amd alt right fundamentals are Joshua Green s book was a bestseller from the minute it hit the shelves Is it a great book Almost, IMHO It certainty made me feel almost physically ill seeing the utter depravity of Bannon and Drumpf as they mounted their assault on America in 2015 2016 It definitely reassured me in my previous statements see my reviews of The Plot Against America by Philip Roth and It Can t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis that we are li...Did you watch the Charlottesville white power vigil on TV, and were you surprised to see a new variety of racist, a Millennial, a man unmasked, unhooded brandishing mommy s tiki torch, wearing granddad s WW II helmet gazing self confidently into the camera I watched it, and began to question where this strange new beast had come from, when I remembered I had just read a book that provided me with part of the answer Devil s Bargain Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidenc Did you watch the Charlottesville white power vigil on TV, and were you surprised to see a new variety of racist, a Millennial, a man unmasked, unhooded brandishing mommy s tiki torch, wearing granddad s WW II helmet gazing self confidently into the camera I watched it, and began to question where this strange new beast had come from, when I remembered I had just read a book that provided me with part of the answer Devil s Bargain Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency.These are the alt right, the disaffected suburban isolates who once hid in their parent...Update August 18, 2017 Well, Bannon s down possibly because of this book Donald doesn t like other people taking credit for his successes His bizarre interview with the American Prospect may also have played a role undercutting your boss s bluff on North Korea is not a good look But is he out Probably not He s already back on the board of Breitbart, and so the big question is who he decides to attack next, and whoever else decides to attack him Straig Update August 18, 2017 Well, Bannon s down possibly because of this book Donald doesn t like other people taking credit for his successes His bizarre interview with the American Prospect may also have played a role undercutting your boss s bluff on North Korea is not a good look But is he out Probably not He s al...Yuck Steve Bannon has a twisted sense of the world One wonders how he got from the Navy Harvard to the raving, unshaven ideologue he is today, but one guesses it was because he discovered good looks, money, and brains weren t enough to make him happy But one could use these things to blow up the world Steve Bannon at HarvardJoshua Green undoubtedly deserves at least four stars for being able to write and having the material no one else did ...A littlethan a quarter of the way in, I ve decided I don t want or need to know oneeffing thing about these assholes.The last time I read a book with the word devils in the title, it was about Wall Street and the crash of 08 This book is very similar it shows how a bunch of disparate actors came together to create utter chaos, except this time it s political instead of financial The main question I had going in was whether Bannon has ties to the Kremlin in the way the Trump family does, but it seems not Either that or he s so politically savvy that he knows how to cover his tracks But who knows what wi The last time I read a book with the word devils in the title, it was about Wall Street and the crash of 08 This book is very similar it shows how a bunch of disparate actors came together to create utter chaos, except this time it s political instead of financial The main question I had going in was whether Bannon has ties to the Kremlin in the way the Trump family does, but it seems not Either that or he s so politically savvy that he knows how to cover his tracks But who knows what will be revealed in the future Believe it or not, the least interesting parts of this book were about Trump himself I felt like I already knew that stuff, having just lived through the election But the behind the scenes stuff, not just Bannon s biography but the story of the Mercers and David Bossie of Citizens United, were fascinating I whipped through this book quicker than any of its size I read all year that s how absorbing it was It al...The author suffers the liberal s handicaps of mistaking his opinions for facts and presuming his biases are received wisdom Look no further than the title insinuating that Steve Bannon s relationship with Trump is sinister or possibly evil In the text, examples are legion One of the most glaring is his citing of Trump s campaign flourish at worst a rhetorical joke suggesting that Russian intelligence might have, or be able to locate, Hillary s missing emails to baldly assert Trump inv The author suffers the liberal s handicaps of mistaking his opinions for facts and presuming his biases are received wisdom Look no further than the title insinuating that Steve Bannon s relationship with Trump is sinister or possibly evil ...Green book changed the fundamental question about the 2016 election from How could this have happened to How could we have not seen this comingDescriptionFrom 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 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Devils Bargain
  • 21 February 2018
  • Kindle Edition
  • 286 pages
  • Joshua Green
  • Devils Bargain