TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stevens,Stuart
TI  - It was all a lie: how the Republican Party became Donald Trump 
SN  - 9780525658450
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - Trump, Donald,
KW  - Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
KW  - History
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - United States
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-1989
KW  - 1989-
N1  - "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?
N2  - "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
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