It was all a lie : how the Republican Party became Donald Trump /
Stevens, Stuart,
It was all a lie : how the Republican Party became Donald Trump / Stuart Stevens. - First edition. - 237 pages ; 22 cm
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: It was all a lie -- Race, the original Republican sin -- Family values -- The long con -- Confederacy of dunces -- Machinery of deception -- What are they afraid of? -- The anti-American patriots -- The empire's last stand -- How do lies end?
"An indictment of the Republican Party from one of the most successful Republican political operatives of his generation"-- Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. Here he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. Stevens shows how Trump is the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, as has the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values" and fiscal responsibility. Stephen helped to create the modern party that kneels before a morally bankrupt con man-- and now he wants nothing more than to see it held accountable. -- adapted from jacket
9780525658450 0525658459 9780593080979 0593080971
2019048755
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History.
Conservatism--History.--United States
Political culture--History.--United States
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-
It was all a lie : how the Republican Party became Donald Trump / Stuart Stevens. - First edition. - 237 pages ; 22 cm
"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue: It was all a lie -- Race, the original Republican sin -- Family values -- The long con -- Confederacy of dunces -- Machinery of deception -- What are they afraid of? -- The anti-American patriots -- The empire's last stand -- How do lies end?
"An indictment of the Republican Party from one of the most successful Republican political operatives of his generation"-- Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. Here he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. Stevens shows how Trump is the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, as has the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values" and fiscal responsibility. Stephen helped to create the modern party that kneels before a morally bankrupt con man-- and now he wants nothing more than to see it held accountable. -- adapted from jacket
9780525658450 0525658459 9780593080979 0593080971
2019048755
Trump, Donald, 1946-
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )--History.
Conservatism--History.--United States
Political culture--History.--United States
United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
United States--Politics and government--1989-