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Trump Is Everywhere

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Trial Balloon · Ep. 190: Trump Is Everywhere

What Were We Thinking

October 6, 2020 · 9:00 am ET · Leave a Comment

Joe Klein: “In 2015, Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic, took on a harrowing task: He read eight books ‘written’ by Donald Trump. Soon, he expanded the mandate, reading everything he could about Trump and the Trump era — 150 books in all.”

“It was an act of transcendent masochism, but we should be grateful he did it because What Were We Thinking looks past the obvious and perverse — that is, past Trump himself — to the troublesome questions raised by the elevation of a soulless carnival barker to the nation’s highest office.”

What Were We Thinking
A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era
by Carlos Lozada · Simon & Schuster · 2020
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