by Joshua Green
First published 2017
Joshua Green examines the alliance between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump that reshaped American politics in 2016. Drawing from dozens of interviews conducted across six years, Green traces how Bannon's appointment to lead Trump's struggling campaign on August 17, 2016, shocked Washington and transformed the election. The author reveals how Bannon, a political outsider despised across party lines, used his ethno-nationalist ideology and multi-year strategy against Hillary Clinton to engineer an unlikely victory. Green argues that Trump's campaign represented the final stage of a populist movement that had been growing in America for years, with Bannon serving as its strategic architect. The book shows how Bannon viewed the election as part of a global right-wing uprising designed to reshape world politics. Green demonstrates that understanding Trump's rise requires examining his partnership with Bannon, as their combined story explains the remarkable circumstances that determined the election outcome through what the author describes as a genuine right-wing conspiracy to defeat Clinton.
Genres: biography, political-science, 21st-century, political-thriller, american-history
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: conspiracy, political-intrigue, unlikely-allies
Period: 2016
272 pages · Hardcover · Penguin Pr