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Bezig met laden... Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submissiondoor Mark Leibovich
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This is not just another book about The Former Guy, but a book containing anecdotes and statements by many, many people who have been enablers and sycophants of him, and destroyers of America without remorse. It is sad, enraging, disturbing, disgusting, and extremely well-sourced and -written. I enjoyed it very much and am happy to say that it is not ponderous. ( ) There are some good lines, and a nice evocation of the palpable fear felt by Republican operatives watching the Trump tidal wave destroy all of their hopes and dreams. But Leibovich, while being unsparing, still manages to let these guys monologue about how they were the real victims of Trump. The overall effect is emphasize just how many villains there are in the the Trump saga. Frustratingly, not a single one of the people who enabled Trump and spoke on the record is the least apologetic or remorseful. Shamelessness truly is the only qualification required for this current version of the Republican party, I guess. Leibovich takes a close look at the people who supported Trump and provides a remarkable catalog of their hypocrisies. He records what they said at one time and then how they totally reverse themselves later in order to remain in Trump's good graces. It is a demonstration of the lack of principles in the Republican party.
Mark Leibovich is the winner of a National Magazine Award, a former staffer of the New York Times Magazine, the author of a bestseller about Washington and a recent hire of the Atlantic, one of the hotter, the more serous news websites. In short, he has a byline that arouses expectations of thoroughness and thoughtfulness. So one might assume that his new 304-page tome (before the acknowledgments, the notes and the index) would include some new facts or several new insights about his subjects, the Trump sycophants who enabled the most disastrous presidency of modern times. Sadly, Leibovich has almost nothing fresh to tell us. Instead of new information, we get a recycled account of "the dirt that Trump tracked in, the people he broke, and the swamp he did not drain". ... If you want to hear Leibovich reprise all of the softball questions he asked (half of them off the record) of all Trump's sycophants, this book is for you. But if you're interested in explosive new facts about exactly how Trump tried to demolish American democracy, skip this and stay tuned for the next hearing of the House select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Erelijsten
"From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller This Town, the eyewitness account of how the GOP collaborated with Donald Trump to transform Washington's "swamp" into a gold-plated hot tub--and a onetime party of rugged individualists into a sycophantic personality cult"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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