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Life in the Conway Home

May 23, 2022 at 9:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Kellyanne Conway writes in her new book that there was no “deal” between her and her husband as she served as one of Donald Trump’s top aides, Axios reports.

“Night after night, I would come home from a busy day at work and be there for the kids: dinner, homework, projects. While I was minding dishes, dogs, laundry, managing adolescent dramas and traumas, George would be just steps away from me, tucked away in his home office, plotting against my boss and me.”

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How a Book About Trump and Evangelicals Became a Hit

May 23, 2022 at 8:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“When historian Kristin Du Mez’s latest book, Jesus and John Wayne, came out in the summer of 2020, it received little attention from mainstream gatekeepers and reviewers,” the Washington Post reports.

“But the book, which explores evangelical fondness for former president Donald Trump and strong masculine figures, has since sold more than 100,000 copies through word of mouth, podcasts and book clubs. When it came out in paperback last month, the book shot up to No. 4 among nonfiction paperbacks on the New York Times bestseller list.”

“As journalists and academics tried to explain how evangelicals could bring themselves to vote for Trump, Du Mez argued that evangelical support was not a shocking aberration from their views but a culmination of evangelicals’ long-standing embrace of militant masculinity, presenting the man as protector and warrior.”

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Du Mez, Kristin Kobes (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 365 Pages - 06/23/2020 (Publication Date) - Liveright (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

Kellyanne Conway Takes Aim at Everyone But Trump

May 22, 2022 at 7:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Washington Post: “Part personal chronicle and part political journey, Conway’s book is filled with the sorts of barbed one-liners and bon mots that she dispensed on cable news on Trump’s behalf, becoming — depending on one’s perspective — increasingly famous or infamous.”

“Unlike many other Trump-focused tomes in the post-presidency era, Conway has not set out to pen a scathing tell-all, in which she distances herself from the president or administration she once served.”

Here's the Deal: A Memoir
Here's the Deal: A Memoir
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Conway, Kellyanne (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 512 Pages - 05/24/2022 (Publication Date) - Threshold Editions (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

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Trump Nearly Quit 2016 Presidential Race

May 22, 2022 at 11:34 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former president Donald Trump considered quitting his first run for the presidency after the notorious recording about him grabbing women surfaced a month before the election, Kellyanne Conway writes in her upcoming book, which was obtained by the Daily Beast.

Filed Under: 2016 Campaign, Political Books

‘Cheating by Tweeting’

May 20, 2022 at 7:58 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Kellyanne Conway writes in her new memoir that husband George was “cheating by tweeting” anti-Trump sentiments, People magazine reports.

Here's the Deal: A Memoir
Here's the Deal: A Memoir
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Conway, Kellyanne (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 512 Pages - 05/24/2022 (Publication Date) - Threshold Editions (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

The Biggest Global Risk of All

May 17, 2022 at 8:06 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ian Bremmer writes in his new book, The Power of Crisis, that the globe’s three great threats are the next pandemic, the climate emergency and the unexpected impact of disruptive technologies, Axios reports.

Writes Bremmer: “The speed of technological change is the biggest risk of all. Companies are now using artificial intelligence to figure out the most efficient ways to change human behavior in ways that profit them.”

He adds: “New technologies are already changing what it means to be human — and we have no idea where that might lead.”

The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
The Power of Crisis: How Three Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Bremmer, Ian (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 268 Pages - 05/17/2022 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books, Technology

Trump Ally Out with Children’s Book on Russia Probe

May 16, 2022 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Kash Patel, a former Republican aide on the House intelligence committee who Donald Trump weighed installing as deputy CIA director, is publishing a children’s book that perpetuates the false claim the Steele dossier sparked investigations into Russian collusion,” The Guardian reports.

“The book features characters such as ‘King Donald’ and his enemy ‘Hillary Queenton.'”

The Plot Against the King
The Plot Against the King
  • Patel, Kash (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 40 Pages - 04/01/2022 (Publication Date) - Beacon of Freedom Publishing House (Publisher)
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Tom Cotton Claims Left Is Sabotaging America

May 16, 2022 at 9:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) charges that Barack Obama and Joe Biden “have weakened America and emboldened our enemies” in a new book being released in the autumn, Fox News reports.

Only the Strong: Reversing the Left's Plot to Sabotage American Power
Only the Strong: Reversing the Left's Plot to Sabotage American Power
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Cotton, Tom (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 11/15/2022 (Publication Date) - Twelve (Publisher)
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They Had a Duty to Speak Up

May 12, 2022 at 2:01 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Tom Nichols: “Even if we cut some slack for Esper and all the others who served as honorably and conscientiously as they could until they were faced with either the dead end of resignation or being fired, the fact is that these men and women remained silent for far too long once they were out of government service. They held back important things that the American people and their elected representatives needed to know. They kept them as their own personal secrets, either out of some misplaced sense of bureaucratic propriety, or because they had a book deal and didn’t want to steal their own thunder from release day.”

“They had a duty to speak up sooner. And they failed in that duty.”

“Esper, Mattis, Tillerson, and many, many other people who crawled through the Shawshank sewer pipe that was the four years of the Trump administration needed to speak up the minute they were out. Instead, they teased their book bombshells or played coy games of slap and tickle on cable outlets.”

Filed Under: Political Books, Trump Legacy

How Great Leaders Are Made

May 11, 2022 at 10:22 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Just published: Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made by David Gergen.

“To uncover the fundamental elements of effective leadership, Gergen traces the journeys of iconic leaders past and present, from pathbreakers like Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Lewis, John McCain, and Harvey Milk to historic icons like Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, and Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, to contemporary game changers like Greta Thunberg, the Parkland students, and the Black Lives Matter movement.”

Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made
Hearts Touched with Fire: How Great Leaders are Made
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Gergen, David (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 314 Pages - 05/10/2022 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
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Mark Esper Says Trump Was the Biggest Leaker Of All

May 10, 2022 at 9:16 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper says in his new book that “leaks were a chronic problem” in the Trump administration and Donald Trump was the “biggest leaker of all,” Insider reports.

Writes Esper: “The individual motivations for the leaks ranged from advancing a preferred policy outcome to enhancing the leaker’s own role or credentials to currying favor with the president. It was a noxious behavior learned from the top. The president was the biggest leaker of all. It turned colleague against colleague, department against department, and it was generally bad for the administration and the country,”

Filed Under: Political Books

Trump Wanted To Activate Generals to Court-Martial Them

May 6, 2022 at 1:24 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

According to a copy of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper’s memoir, A Sacred Oath, former President Donald Trump demanded that former Gen. Stan McChrystal and former Navy Admiral William McRaven be recalled into active duty so that they could be court-martialed for criticizing the president, TPM reports.

A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Esper, Mark T. (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 749 Pages - 05/10/2022 (Publication Date) - William Morrow (Publisher)
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J.D. Vance Pulls the Plug on Book About Religion

May 6, 2022 at 6:56 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A second book by Hillbilly Elegy author and U.S. Senate candidate JD Vance that had been under contract with Harper has been called off, the AP reports.

Filed Under: Political Books

Trump Proposed Launching Missiles Into Mexico

May 5, 2022 at 5:59 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former President Donald Trump asked Mark Esper, his defense secretary, about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to ‘destroy the drug labs’ and wipe out the cartels, maintaining that the United States’ involvement in a strike against its southern neighbor could be kept secret, Mr. Esper recounts in his upcoming memoir,” the New York Times reports.

“Those remarkable discussions in 2020 were among several moments that Mr. Esper described in the book, A Sacred Oath, as leaving him all but speechless when he served the 45th president.”

“Mr. Esper, the last Senate-confirmed defense secretary under Mr. Trump, also had concerns about speculation that the president might misuse the military around Election Day by, for instance, having soldiers seize ballot boxes.”

A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Esper, Mark T. (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 749 Pages - 05/10/2022 (Publication Date) - William Morrow (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

McCarthy Discussed Removing Trump from Office

May 4, 2022 at 4:46 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

With the publication of This Will Not Pass by Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns today, the authors released another audio tape of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) criticizing Donald Trump just after the January 6 Capitol riot.

Said McCarthy: “What the president did is atrocious and totally wrong.”

McCarthy also discussed using the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office but concluded the process “takes too long.”

This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future
This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Martin, Jonathan (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 473 Pages - 05/03/2022 (Publication Date) - Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
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Filed Under: House of Representatives, Political Books

Why We Did It

May 3, 2022 at 2:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A must read: Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell by Tim Miller.

“Former Republican political operative Tim Miller answers the question no one else has fully grappled with: Why did normal people go along with the worst of Trumpism?”

“In a bracingly honest reflection on both his own past work for the Republican Party and the contortions of his former peers in the GOP establishment, Miller draws a straight line between the actions of the 2000s GOP to the Republican political class’s Trumpian takeover, including the horrors of January 6th.”

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Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell
  • Hardcover Book
  • Miller, Tim (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 288 Pages - 06/28/2022 (Publication Date) - Harper (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books

The Presidential Speeches Never Given

May 3, 2022 at 5:40 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President John F. Kennedy in 1962 readied a speech that would have announced a punishing bombing run on Cuba, which could have led to nuclear war. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower drafted an apology speech in case the D-Day operation of 1944 failed,” Axios reports.

“Jeff Nussbaum, a veteran Democratic speechwriter who left the White House last month, unearths these historical gems in a new book, Undelivered, out next week.”

Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History
  • Amazon Kindle Edition
  • Nussbaum, Jeff (Author)
  • English (Publication Language)
  • 366 Pages - 05/10/2022 (Publication Date) - Flatiron Books (Publisher)
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Filed Under: Political Books, Political History

Trump Kept Room Full of MAGA Swag

May 2, 2022 at 3:36 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new book reveals the extent to which the White House was essentially an arm of Donald Trump’s political campaign, noting that Trump kept a room next to the Oval Office filled with MAGA merchandise, the HuffPost reports.

Said New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D): “They literally hand you a shopping bag, and you took anything you’d like.”

Filed Under: Political Books

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