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A review by fritz42
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker, Susan Glasser
5.0
4.5 stars. This is a detailed history of the four years of Trump and his administration, and I mean detailed. Seeing all these things listed and described in chronological order boggled my mind that we as a nation went through all of that mess. It is an amazing piece of journalism.
Reading it brought back to mind all the startling things that happened, this time with the added knowledge of people who had been there. They interviewed hundreds of people for this book, and I appreciate the work and time it must have taken for this. However, you can tell which people they interviewed who are trying to "rewrite" their own personal participation in this stain on our history.
Which leads me to my next thought. I've read a number of books, chronicling TFG's presidential years and what occurred during them, and throughout them all, I have wondered where were these people who surrounded TFG? They knew how unsuited he was for the presidency, how dangerous he truly was, and they didn't rise above their need for power to do what was right for the country. Yes, some of them tried to be the adults in the room, but in my mind, many failed their oaths to the Constitution.
Luckily, we have good books like this one, that keeps them from hiding in the shadows of what they did.
Reading it brought back to mind all the startling things that happened, this time with the added knowledge of people who had been there. They interviewed hundreds of people for this book, and I appreciate the work and time it must have taken for this. However, you can tell which people they interviewed who are trying to "rewrite" their own personal participation in this stain on our history.
Which leads me to my next thought. I've read a number of books, chronicling TFG's presidential years and what occurred during them, and throughout them all, I have wondered where were these people who surrounded TFG? They knew how unsuited he was for the presidency, how dangerous he truly was, and they didn't rise above their need for power to do what was right for the country. Yes, some of them tried to be the adults in the room, but in my mind, many failed their oaths to the Constitution.
Luckily, we have good books like this one, that keeps them from hiding in the shadows of what they did.