Joshua Green has put together the complete, and completely unnerving, story of Donald J. Trump's association with Steve Bannon and how Bannon and his minions got Trump elected.
The subtitle of "Devil's Bargain" is "Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency." One of the first and last and most important and repeated elements of this "storming" of the presidency is Bannon's hatred of Hillary Clinton.
Mrs. Clinton, by the way, was right about the "vast right-wing
conspiracy," which Bannon had a huge hand in starting and continuing.
The rest of the book is about Bannon's life and political and social
views, which are abhorrent; and how Trump connected with him.
This is another book I'm glad I didn't pay money for. It's a good book, but it's about a painful subject and its two main characters are deplorables.
I
placed a hold on it at my local library as soon as I heard about it, so
it took me about four weeks to get it, because so many other people had
placed holds on it. Obviously I'm not the only person in the Fort Vancouver Regional Library's area who is fascinated by the
dirty laundry of the Trump campaign and the unscrupulous, lying,
foul-mouthed trolls who struck more than one bargain with the devil to
get Trump elected.
There, I've summed up the book for you so you won't have to even go to the library to read it. It's not worth your time and gas money to drive there, and certainly not worth your time to do more than skim through it, now that you know the gist of it.
But if you're fascinated by the history of this disastrous election, go ahead and read through it as carefully as I did. It's really well written, factually correct, and journalistically sound, i.e., unbiased.
It even has chapter notes and an index so if, for instance, you've forgotten by the end what's so significant about Benedictine College Prep, you can look it up and find the reference at the beginning.
But, really, don't bother.
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