This book was a little underwhelming. I had gone into this book thinking it would be the one book to read about the trump presidency, and it ended up falling a little flat. It was essentially a play by play of the last four years, which got a little old and repetitive- It could have been 200 pages shorter. There were so many names involved that I couldn't keep track of who was who.

I think what I wanted was more a book of what led to someone like trump being elected in the first place, something that was more of a sociological take on the presidency rather than an in the room account. This was on me though as this book never proposed to be that.

I will give it four stars as it accomplished what it said it wanted to. For me, the experience was probably a 2 star read. It just was not that interesting!

A detailed and easily comprehensible account of much of the chaos that made up Trump's years in office. A good read for anyone unable to keep up with the constant personnel and policy changes during the administration.

We all know how we feel about the subject matter of the book, we don't need to be prodded and with that in mind I appreciated the authors' lack of snark and sarcasm in retelling the events of 2017-2021. The book is well constructed, the events flow smoothly and the material is well supported. I believe it's all very accurate.

Best audience might be decades away when the events are, hopefully, less raw. I had sworn off these kinds of books but was having a particularly bad day a few weeks ago and thought it would be the right book for the moment. It was.

Years ago I read Baker's excellent book about the Bush/Cheney administration [b:Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House|17288658|Days of Fire Bush and Cheney in the White House|Peter Baker|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1363837099l/17288658._SY75_.jpg|23909838] and was so impressed I felt he was worth revisiting.

Very detailed, but not as many bombshells as the marketing for it led me to believe. The German Generals comment was perhaps the most singularly shocking moment. The book does a very good job, though, of filling in many of the blank spaces between details we already knew.

A must-read for those who study the presidency or just Trump.

Even having lived through the era and closely following it, reading about the Trump Presidency from front to back in such a condensed time period really highlights how terrible and dangerous everything about it was/is. I learned that some of the major players are actually even worse humans than they appear, specifically Mike Pompeo and Mark Meadows, who should never be allowed to hold any public office ever again.

If you don't want to subject yourself to the entire period again, I do suggest reading the last few chapters having to do with the election and its aftermath. This country was in far more peril than most people thing and we should never forget the damage a bad actor(s) can do.

One of the better evaluations of the trump presidency.