by Maureen Dowd
First published 2016
Maureen Dowd chronicles the 2016 presidential campaign between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, two candidates who achieved record unfavorability ratings among American voters. The Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist draws on decades of covering both figures, from Trump's tentative first approach to a presidential rope line in 1999 to her award-winning coverage of the Clinton impeachment scandal that same year. Dowd applies her signature blend of sharp wit and cutting political analysis to dissect what she frames as one of history's most vicious battles between the sexes. She traces the psychological dynamics and destructive patterns that defined this particularly nasty campaign season. The book presents dispatches from what Dowd characterizes as a political asylum, offering readers her acerbic observations on a surreal electoral process that left Americans trapped between two deeply unpopular choices.
Genres: american, political-science, non-fiction, biography-memoir, 21st-century, journalism, current-affairs, american-history
Vibes: intimate, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, unreliable-narrator
Period: 2016
464 pages · Hardcover · Twelve