Post, Jerrold M
Summary: Offering an in-depth psychological and political portrait of what makes Donald Trump tick, Dangerous Charisma combines psychoanalysis with an investigation into the personality of the current American president. This narrative not only examines the life and psychology of Donald Trump, but will also provide an analysis of the charismatic psychological tie between Trump and his supporters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 POSHennessey, Susan
Summary: "How Donald Trump has reshaped the norms of the American presidency"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 HENSherman, Jake S.
Summary: "The startling inside story of Donald Trump's first two years, viewed from Capitol Hill, where lawmakers on both sides of the aisle jockeyed for advantage as American politics reached a fevered pitch. Taking readers into secret strategy calls and closed-door meetings from the House to the White House, Politico Playbook writers Jake Sherman and Anna Palmer trace the strategy and the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 SHEDionne, E. J
Summary: "New York Times bestselling author and Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne, Jr. sounds the alarm in Code Red, calling for an alliance between progressives and moderates to seize the moment and restore hope to America's future for the 2020 presidentialelection. Will progressives and moderates feud while America burns? Or will these natural allies take advantage of the greatest opportunity...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 DIOSerwer, Adam
Summary: "Taking joy in suffering is more human than we'd like to admit. The cruelty of the Trump administration's policies and the ritual rhetorical flaying of his targets are intimately connected. Shared cruelty and the delight it brings are critical moments ofconnection for white supremacists, a fact that is not new. Adam Serwer has been chronicling our political landscape for the last decade. He is...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 SERCarpenter, Amanda B.
Summary: In Gaslighting America, Carpenter breaks down Trump's formula, showing why it's practically foolproof, playing his victims, the media, the Democrats, and the Republican fence-sitters perfectly. She traces how this tactic started with Nixon, gained traction with Bill Clinton, and exploded under Trump
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 CARGehl, Katherine M.
Summary: "Our political system has become big business--and business is booming--yet solutions to big problems seem impossible. Behold, the political-industrial complex. Rampant lobbying and gerrymandering. Election spending rising exponentially with each cycle. The Democratic and Republican parties competing furiously against each other for advantage, while together--as a duopoly--having a lock on the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard Business Review Press 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Posner, Eric A.
Summary: "Cuts through the hyperbole and hysteria that often distorts assessments of our republic, particularly at this time." - Alan Taylor, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for History What-and who-is a demagogue? How did America's Founders envision the presidency? What should a constitutional democracy look like-and how can it be fixed when it appears to be broken? Something is definitely wrong with...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 POSRhodes, Benjamin
Summary: "In 2017, as Ben Rhodes was helping former president Barack Obama begin his next chapter, the legacy they worked to build for eight years was being taken apart. To understand what was happening in his own country, Rhodes decided to look outward, at the wider world. Over the next three years, he traveled to dozens of countries, meeting with politicians, dissidents, and activists confronting the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 909.83 RHOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 909.83 RHOWehner, Peter
Summary: "The New York Times opinion writer, media commentator, outspoken Republican and Christian critic of the Trump presidency offers a spirited defense of politics and its virtuous and critical role in maintaining our democracy and what we must do to save it before it is too late. "Any nation that elects Donald Trump to be its president has a remarkably low view of politics." Frustrated and feeling...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.2 WEHKakutani, Michiko
Summary: Over the last three decades, Michiko Kakutani has been thinking and writing about the demise of objective truth in popular culture, academia, and contemporary politics. In The Death of Truth, she connects the dots to reveal the slow march of untruth up to our present moment, when Red State and Blue State America have little common ground, proven science is once more up for debate, and all...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2018
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Pirro, Jeanine
Summary: We are victims of a subterfuge and sabotage of the presidency that we've never witnessed before. Nevertheless, President Trump continues to fight every day to keep his promise to Make America Great Again. That bold idea has already led to a conservative judge on the Supreme Court, tax reform, and deregulation that has unleashed an economy stronger than anyone could have imagined. But there are...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 PIRTrump, Donald
Summary: "While everyday Americans strive to make an honest living by working hard, liberals within the swamp have perfected a way of barely working while elevating themselves above the rest of America. Liberal Privilege will take you behind the scenes of the swamp, just as the nation gears up for the next presidential election. As President Donald J. Trump seeks a second term based on real...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Donald Trump, Jr. 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 TRUWilliams, Juan
Summary: The political analyst and civil-rights expert presents a forceful critique of how key decisions by the Trump administration are rolling back advances in voting rights, integration, and racial discrimination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 WILFrank, Justin A.
Summary: No president in the history of the United States has inspired more alarm and confusion than Donald Trump. As questions and concerns about his decisions, behavior, and qualifications for office have multiplied, they point to one primary question: Does he pose a genuine threat to our country? The American Psychiatric Association's Goldwater Rule constrains psychiatrists from offering diagnoses on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 FRAAbramson, Seth
Summary: The Harvard-educated defense attorney and "Newsweek" political columnist presents an in-depth account of the Ukraine scandal that exposes years of clandestine activities, explaining why Trump's corrupt international deals have been particularly consequential during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 ABRMueller, Robert S.
Summary: Contains the report, a timeline of the major events of the Mueller investigation, a guide to the important individuals involved, key supporting government filings (including criminal indictments).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 MUEPirro, Jeanine
Summary: "It's been nearly four years since President Trump took office, and Judge Jeanine Pirro has had enough of the left's countless lies and false accusations. She is now forced to ask: How could anyone vote against President Trump this November? What more could you possibly want? In Don't Lie to Me, Judge Jeanine brings her signature writing style and acute legal mind to topics such as the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Frances, Allen
Summary: It is comforting to see President Donald Trump as a crazy man, a one-off, an exception -- not a reflection on us or our democracy. But in ways I never anticipated, his rise was absolutely predictable and a mirror on our soul. What does it say about us, that we elected someone so manifestly unfit and unprepared to determine mankind's future? Trump is a symptom of a world in distress, not its...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.6 FRACampbell, John L.
Summary: The 2016 presidential election was unlike any other in recent memory, and Donald Trump was an entirely different kind of candidate than voters were used to seeing. He was the first true outsider to win the White House in over a century and the wealthiest populist in American history. Democrats and Republicans alike were left scratching their heads-how did this happen?
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 CAMRothkopf, David J. (David Jochanan)
Summary: "Political historian and commentator David Rothkopf shows how Trump will be judged by history. (Spoiler alert: not well) in Traitor. Donald Trump is unfit in almost every respect for the high office he holds. But what distinguishes him from every other bad leader the U.S. has had is that he has repeatedly, egregiously, betrayed his country. Regardless of how Senate Republicans have let him off...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.933 ROTMicklethwait, John
Summary: Presents the problems Western leaders have faced since COVID-19, and outlines a detailed plan to help them become more vigilant, better prepared, and responsive to disruptive future events.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.3 MICHacker, Jacob S.
Summary: "A groundbreaking account of how the dangerous alliance of right-wing plutocrats and populists threatens the very pillars of American democracy. We often assume that the Republican Party is divided between a tax-cutting old guard and a white-nationalist vanguard-and that with Donald Trump's ascendance, the upstarts are winning. Yet as New York Times best-selling authors Jacob S. Hacker and Paul...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.52 HACBryant, Howard
Summary: "Full Dissidence is a collection of essays focusing on the corporate assault on civil liberties, collisions of race and identity, and the kleptocracy of the Trump White House has forced America to ask itself if its beliefs of freedom and democracy are more than just words"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2020