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Joshua Green is an American journalist, born in 1972. He previously worked as an editor for The Onion, The American Prospect, and The Washington Monthly, and senior editor of The Atlantic. He has written for The New Yorker, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. Currently, he is a senior correspondent for afficher plus Bloomberg Businessweek, covering politics for the magazine and Bloomberg Politics. His writings have been published in anthologies such as The Best Political Writing, and The Bob Marley Reader. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, and Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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​Political reporter Joshua Green examines how Candidate Donald Trump and political maverick Steve Bannon joined forces to help define Trump's political policies and win the Presidency. Trump was a long-shot to win the Republican nomination much less the Presidency itself, and Joshua Green makes the case that understanding Trump's climb to power requires an understanding of Steve Bannon's role in the campaign.
​Bannon was a media savvy operative who offered Trump a well defined coherent conservative strategy, and brought significant financial resources to the Trump campaign. In addition to his own leadership and associations with conservative Breitbart News and Cambridge Analytica, Bannan brought financial resources from individuals such as billionaire Robert Mercer and Citizens United head David Bossie. Together, these resources were able to fund anti-Clinton researchers and provide conservative news ideas throughout the campaign. These stories, in turn, were picked up by main stream media, and kept Trump's narrative's out front.
Green emphasizes that despite his shortcomings, Bannon understood the media, and with his political ideas and resources, was able to leverage his influence to keep Trump in the headlines and keep Clinton scandals prominent in the news, both of which went a long way to the making of the Trump Presidency.
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rsutto22 | 14 autres critiques | Jul 15, 2021 |
I guess at the time it was written it had some new information, but it really didn't age well. Focused more on Trump than on Bannon (and there are plenty of other better books about Trump), glossed over the actually interesting parts of Bannon's life/career, and was also pretty annoyingly written. Not bad in a partisan way, just bad (or really, mediocre).
 
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octal | 14 autres critiques | Jan 1, 2021 |
Caught in the Devil's Bargain
Review of the Penguin Press hardcover edition (2017)
Given the central role he had played in the greatest political upset in American history, [a] reporter suggested that it had all the makings of a Hollywood movie.
Without missing a beat, Bannon shot back a reply worthy of his favorite vintage star, Gregory Peck in Twelve O’Clock High.
"Brother," he said, "Hollywood doesn’t make movies where the bad guys win."
- excerpt from pg. 236 of Devil's Bargain

Devil's Bargain is currently (as of early December 2020) the 41st most top voted book in the Trump Tell-alls List on Goodreads, which has the somewhat shocking current total of 225 books. The list is likely going to increase by 100+ with the Trump era ending and many retrospectives and memoirs yet to be written and published.

As indicated by its ranking in the Goodreads Trump Tell-Alls (which I have found to be a reliable guide to the best books on the subject), Devil's Bargain does not actually reveal very much about Trump himself. It is more a biography and background of the Trump advisor and final 2016 campaign manager Steve Bannon and his various financial backers & outlets which helped to defeat the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Probably the most surprising revelation about Bannon was the extent of his reading in world religions and mysticism, especially the work of René Guénon, which ties into Bannon's traditionalist nationalist philosophy.
Bannon’s reading eventually led him to the work of René Guénon, an early-20th-​­century French occultist and metaphysician who was raised a Roman Catholic, practiced Freemasonry, and later became a Sufi Muslim who observed the Sharia. There are many forms of traditionalism in religion and philosophy. Guénon developed a philosophy often called “Traditionalism” (capital “T”), a form of anti-modernism with precise connotations. Guénon was a “primordial” Traditionalist, who believed that certain ancient religions, including the Hindu Vedanta, Sufism, and medieval Catholicism, were repositories of common spiritual truths, revealed to mankind in the earliest age of the world, that were being wiped out by the rise of secular modernity in the West. What Guénon hoped for, he wrote in 1924, was to “restore to the West an appropriate traditional civilization.” - excerpt from pgs. 204-205 of Devil's Bargain

Although it is more tied into the 2016 American Election, I read Devil's Bargain as background to my ongoing reading survey of various books in relation to the 2020 American Election. As a Canadian, I’ve generally ignored American politics and elections in past years, but the drama of the situation in 2020 has heightened my interest.

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The hardcover edition of Devil's Bargain was published on July 18, 2017. This was one month before Steve Bannon's ouster from the White House on August 18, 2017, due to the behind the scenes machinations of Jarvanka (the Jared Kushner/Ivanka Trump contingent of advisors in the White House) according to later books such as Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (published January 5, 2018). The paperback edition of Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising (published on February 13, 2018) adds a new Preface to detail Bannon's firing along with a subtitle change.
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alanteder | 14 autres critiques | Dec 7, 2020 |
Superb book. As far as I know the only one about the 2016 campaign worth reading. The author obviously had privileged access to Bannon and limits his expressions of disgust for him and Donald Trump to the title and occasional adjectives. Fascinating character portrayals and only one typo (on p.210).
 
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JoeHamilton | 14 autres critiques | Jul 21, 2020 |

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