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Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office

par Susan Hennessey

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The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidency.

The extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of the office. Unmaking the Presidency tells the story of the confrontation between a person and the institution he almost wholly embodies.

From the moment of his inauguration, Trump has challenged our deepest expectations of the presidency. But what are those expectations, where did they come from, and how great is the damage? As editors of the "invaluable" (The New York Times) Lawfare website, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes have attracted a large audience to their hard-hitting and highly informed commentary on the controversies surrounding the Trump administration. In this audiobook, they situate Trump-era scandals and outrages in the deeper context of the presidency itself. How should we understand the oath of office when it is taken by a man who may not know what it means to preserve, protect, and defend something other than himself? What aspects of Trump are radically different from past presidents and what aspects have historical antecedents? When has he simply built on his predecessors' misdeeds, and when has he invented categories of misrule entirely his own?

By setting Trump in the light of history, Hennessey and Wittes provide a crucial and durable account of a presidency like no other.

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Two books that should be read to understand this presidency: The Fifth Risk, which deals with the loss of civil servants under Trump and the hollowing out of institutions like the state department, and this one, which focuses on how Trump is fundamentally changing the office of President. ( )
1 voter andrem55 | Jul 31, 2020 |
The founding fathers assumed only the best of the best would ever be put forth by their political party to run for president, assumed the oath of office would morally bind the president to fulfill the requirements of that office, and assumed a person so unfit for office would be quickly removed by a bipartisan Congress. They could never have envisaged Trump as president for he has used, and abused his powers while being supported in that abuse by his own party. Their failure to ever foresee a toxic presidency meant they did not sufficiently limit the president’s seemingly endless powers which “squint at monarchy” or allow Congress the means to properly investigate presidential misbehaviour.
  ShelleyAlberta | Mar 8, 2020 |
This was a fascinating and insightful look at the institution of the American presidency and how it has been changed through history, as well as the impact Donald Trump has had on the norms associated with it. The authors discuss a variety of topics including the oath the president swears to, ethics, corruption, foreign policy, pardons, etc. as well as how the president is reigned in by law, ethics and/or norms. The postscript was particularly educational as the authors looked at the Ukraine issue by discussing how this crisis reflected each of the previous topics discussed. The more I read, the more I am convinced that Trump as been no asset to the United States. This book was an excellent resource for helping me determine my vote in 2020. ( )
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History. Politics. Nonfiction. HTML:

This program is read by the authors.

The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidency.

The extraordinary authority of the U.S. presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of the office. Unmaking the Presidency tells the story of the confrontation between a person and the institution he almost wholly embodies.

From the moment of his inauguration, Trump has challenged our deepest expectations of the presidency. But what are those expectations, where did they come from, and how great is the damage? As editors of the "invaluable" (The New York Times) Lawfare website, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes have attracted a large audience to their hard-hitting and highly informed commentary on the controversies surrounding the Trump administration. In this audiobook, they situate Trump-era scandals and outrages in the deeper context of the presidency itself. How should we understand the oath of office when it is taken by a man who may not know what it means to preserve, protect, and defend something other than himself? What aspects of Trump are radically different from past presidents and what aspects have historical antecedents? When has he simply built on his predecessors' misdeeds, and when has he invented categories of misrule entirely his own?

By setting Trump in the light of history, Hennessey and Wittes provide a crucial and durable account of a presidency like no other.

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