Sarah Kendzior

Hiding in Plain Sight (eBook, ePUB)

The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Instant New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Indie Bound Bestseller Bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible. The story of Donald Trump's rise to power is the story of a buried American history - buried because people in power liked it that way. It was visible without being seen, influential without being named, ubiquitous without being overt. Sarah Kendzior's Hiding in Plain Sight pulls back the veil on a history spanning decades, a history of an American autocrat in the making. In doing so, she reveals the inherent fragility of American democracy - how our continual loss of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption, and the secrets behind a burgeoning autocratic United States have been hiding in plain sight for decades. In Kendzior's signature and celebrated style, she expertly outlines Trump's meteoric rise from the 1980s until today, interlinking key moments of his life with the degradation of the American political system and the continual erosion of our civil liberties by foreign powers. Kendzior also offers a never-before-seen look at her lifelong tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time - living in New York through 9/11 and in St. Louis during the Ferguson uprising, and researching media and authoritarianism when Trump emerged using the same tactics as the post-Soviet dictatorships she had long studied. It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming, but it is worse when we let apathy, doubt, and fear prevent us from preparing ourselves. Hiding in Plain Sight confronts the injustice we have too long ignored because the truth is the only way forward.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Flatiron Books
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250245397
• Artikelnr.: 57078797

Autorenporträt

Sarah Kendzior is best known for her reporting on St. Louis and the 2016 election, her academic research on authoritarian states, and her New York Times bestselling debut The View from Flyover Country. She is a co-host of the podcast Gaslit Nation and was named one of Foreign Policy's "100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events." Her reporting has been featured in Politico, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The New York Times, Globe and Mail, and more. She lives in St. Louis.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Bellwether of American Decline
Chapter Two: The 1980s: Roy Cohn's Orwellian America
Chapter Three: The 1990s: Elite Exploits of the New World Order
Chapter Four: The Early 2000s: Reality TV Terror
Chapter Five: The Late 2000s: Heirs to the Crash
Chapter Six: 2010-2016: Revolution Shakedown
Chapter Seven: 2016-2019: "A Treat More Extensive Than is Widely Known"
Epilogue: End Times Road Trip