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American Carnage

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Coming this summer: American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump by Tim Alberta.

Alberta is quoted by Playbook: “Setting out to capture the rise of Trump in the widest-possible lens, I conducted more than 300 interviews to craft a deeply reported narrative of the 10-year civil war inside the Republican Party, from the twilight of George W. Bush’s presidency through the beginning of Trump’s campaign for reelection. What I discovered—the incredible untold stories of treachery and tribalism, disloyalty and demagoguery inside the GOP—explain not only Trump’s takeover of the party but his lasting imprint on its identity.”

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.

Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.

Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.

Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.

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