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New York Times Bestseller
“Not a conventional Trump-era book. It is less about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the unprecedented capitulation of a political party. This book will endure for helping us understand not what is happening but why it happened…. [An] indispensable work.”—Washington Post
Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump.
As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: they had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural identity, lit a fire under the right. Republicans regained power in Congress but spent that time fighting among themselves. With these struggles weakening the party’s defenses, and with more and more Americans losing faith in the political class, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to launch his campaign in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment. Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the GOP can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil.
Loaded with explosive original reporting and based on hundreds of exclusive interviews—including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell—American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of a political era.
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"A full account of the Republican Party's reluctance to tell the truth to Power and continue the lie about the so-called stolen selection of 2020 in 2023.."
— leepah (5 out of 5 stars)
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“American Carnage…is less about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the unprecedented capitulation of a political party.”
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“An eyes-wide-open analysis of right-wing populism.”
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“Reaches into the depths of the Republican Party and their relationship with the president.”
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“Masterful…A compelling, alarming and scoop-heavy history of the fall of the party of Lincoln.”
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“[Alberta] brings more than a decade of reporting and a real understanding of the conservative movement to American Carnage.”
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“Although Alberta is clearly not an admirer of the president, he is not unsympathetic to the voters who have embraced him and their feelings of resentment toward what they see as an increasingly liberal culture.”
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“Drawing on extensive interviews with politicians and pundits, Alberta’s engrossing narrative is full of sharp intrigues and vivid personalities.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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A New York Times bestseller
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A New York Times Bestseller in Audio
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2019
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A New York Times Book Review pick of Best Books Now in Paperback
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About Tim Alberta
Tim Alberta is the author of the New York Times bestseller American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump. He co-moderated the final Democratic presidential debate of 2019 and frequently appears as a commentator on television programs in the United States and around the world. He s a staff writer for The Atlantic and the former chief political correspondent for Politico, and he has written for dozens of other publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, and Vanity Fair.
About Jason Culp
Jason Culp, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, has been acting since the age of ten, and his credits include a variety of television, theater, and film roles. He is best known for his role as Julian Jerome on General Hospital. In addition to audiobooks and voice-over work in national commercials, he has also narrated documentaries for National Geographic and the History Channel.