The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

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· Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Michael Quinlan
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."—The Washington Post • A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times • "The book everyone is talking about."—Politico

The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious.

"A sumptuous feast of astonishing tales...The more one reads, the more one wishes to read."—NPR.com "A beautifully written, utterly dispiriting history of the man who attacked democracy." —The Guardian


The bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired.

The Divider brings us into the Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical, revealing how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, which cabinet members had a resignation pact, whether Trump asked Japan’s prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize and much more. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those around Trump—how they justified working for a man they considered unfit for office, and where they drew their lines.

The Divider is based on unprecedented access to key players, from President Trump himself to cabinet officers, military generals, close advisers, Trump family members, congressional leaders, foreign officials and others, some of whom have never told their story until now.

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4.5
8 reviews
Billy Barrow
September 27, 2022
I am a Democrat and am smart enough to see this book is not accurate. Very disappointing. Save your money, you will need it with President Biden in office. Very sad day for us Democrats. We have been mislead.
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Michael Flood
November 2, 2022
When people claiming to be Democrats say this book is not accurate I never here any examples as proof. I haven't found anything to back their opinion so I give this book the five stars it deserves.
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Charles Labudda
October 7, 2022
The Truth hurts , even after reliving this a 2nd time,as told in this book! Bravo
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About the author

PETER BAKER is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of Days of Fire and The Breach. SUSAN GLASSER is a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of its weekly "Letter from Trump's Washington," as well as a CNN global affairs analyst. Their first assignment as a married couple was as Moscow bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, after which they wrote Kremlin Rising. They also coauthored The Man Who Ran Washington, a New York Times bestseller. They live in Washington, D.C., with their son.

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