Hiding in Plain Sight
The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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Sarah Kendzior
About this listen
New York Times best-selling 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.
This program is read by the author.
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.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
"Sarah Kendzior, in her brilliant new book, is one of the few journalists who grasps what is happening. Kendzior is a student of autocracy...she has been warning from the get-go that Trump is working to turn America into one." (David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump)
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While everyday Americans strive to make an honest living by working hard, liberals within the swamp have perfected a way of barely working while elevating themselves above all of us. Liberal Privilege will take you behind the scenes of the swamp, just as the nation gears up for the next presidential election. In his second book, number one New York Times best-selling author Donald Trump, Jr., reveals the truth the media has long refused to cover. Hear about the countless liberal scandals, years of entrenched racism in the democrat party, and decades of failed polices.
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Excellent book. AAA+
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By: Donald J. Trump
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Strongmen
- Mussolini to the Present
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- Narrated by: Chloe Cannon
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is the expert on the "strongman" playbook employed by authoritarian demagogues from Mussolini to Putin. In Strongmen, she lays bare the blueprint these leaders have followed over the past 100 years, and empowers us to recognize, resist, and prevent their disastrous rule in the future.
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Fascism expert talks fascism
- By sparky on 12-04-20
By: Ruth Ben-Ghiat
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The Destructionists
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In 1994, more than 300 Republicans under the command of obstructionist and rabble-rouser Congressman Newt Gingrich stood outside the U.S. Capitol to sign the Contract with America and put bipartisanship on notice. Twenty-five years later, on January 6, 2021, a bloodthirsty mob incited by President Trump invaded the Capitol.
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Learned things
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- The Political Psychology of Donald Trump and His Followers
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Offering an in-depth psychological and political portrait of what makes Donald Trump tick, Dangerous Charisma combines psychoanalysis with an investigation into the personality of the current American president. This narrative not only examines the life and psychology of Donald Trump but also provides an analysis of the charismatic psychological tie between Trump and his supporters. In this new book, the psychiatrist who once served under five American presidents applies his expertise to profiling the current resident in the White House with surprising and revelatory results.
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Must read book!!
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By: Jerrold M. Post MD, and others
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The Corrosion of Conservatism
- Why I Left the Right
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- Narrated by: Max Boot
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Warning that the Trump presidency presages America’s decline, Max Boot, the political commentator, recounts his extraordinary journey from lifelong Republican to vehement Trump opponent. As nativism, xenophobia, vile racism, and assaults on the rule of law threaten the very fabric of our nation, The Corrosion of Conservatism presents an urgent defense of American democracy.
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Not an intellectual tour de force!
- By Wayne on 07-14-19
By: Max Boot
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Stop Mass Hysteria
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In his new audiobook, Stop Mass Hysteria, number one New York Times best-selling author Michael Savage calls out the mass hysteria mongers and their methods and shows Americans that we must look to history to understand the present and avoid repeating the mistakes of the past.
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Common sense in a country that is trying not to
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By: Michael Savage
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Justice Corrupted
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The left has corrupted the U.S. legal system. Wielding the law as a weapon, arrogant judges and lawless prosecutors are intimidating, silencing, and even imprisoning Americans who stand in the way of their radical agenda. Their "enemies list" even includes parents who dare to speak up for their children at school board meetings. In this shocking new book, Senator Ted Cruz takes listeners inside the justice system, showing how the wrong hands on the levers of power can strangle liberty, crush opposition, and wreck lives.
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Very Informative
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A huge swath of Americans have put their faith in Trump, and Trump only, because they see the rest of the country building a future that doesn't have a place for them. If they would risk their lives for Trump in a pandemic, they will certainly risk the stability of American democracy. They brought the Trumpocalypse upon the country, and a post-Trumpocalypse country will have to find a way either to reconcile them to democracy - or to protect democracy from them.
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Trump More Dangerous Than the Axis of Evil
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It Was All a Lie
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Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass. This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else.
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A party gone astray
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Unmasked
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Lecturer, syndicated columnist, television commentator, debater, marketer, businessman, best-selling author, publisher, and activist L. Brent Bozell III is one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today. As the founder and president of the Media Research Center, Mr. Bozell runs the largest media watchdog organization in America and is uniquely positioned to offer this blazing critique of the bias in the national media and how they undermine American democracy.
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Good stuff but could have been better!
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Moyers on Democracy
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People know Bill Moyers mostly from his many years of path-breaking journalism on television. But he is also one of America's most sought-after public speakers. His appearances draw sell-out crowds across the country and are among the most reproduced on the Web. Richly insightful, and alive with a fierce, abiding love for our country, Moyers on Democracy is essential listening.
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You can't help but think critically
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart is a time capsule; a real-time ride through the maddening hell that was the 2020 news cycle - when historic turmoil and media mania stretched American sanity, democracy, and toilet paper. Who better to examine this unhinged period in all of its twists and turns than news addict Dave Pell, a.k.a. the internet’s managing editor?
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Couldn’t stop listening!!
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Cowards
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As we approach the most important presidential election in America’s history, something has been lost among all of the debates, attack ads, and super- PACs - something that Americans used to hold in very high regard: THE TRUTH. The truth can no longer be something we hope for; it must be something we live. When courage prevails, cowards do not - and this book was written to ensure that’s exactly what happens.
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Guess what... Its by Glenn Beck!!
- By Joseph on 07-17-12
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- Caitlin
- 05-23-20
A reminder of what we’ve all lived through
You can fact check any of these details, but you’ll remember witnessing most of them with your own eyes and ears, with some background information to explain things we may not have known at the time.
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- jannet dannon-mairena
- 05-29-20
funtastic. thank you
would you also consider writing a companion with the information about the road trips you've taken it with the children so that perhaps we can all do the same with our families.
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- David Allard
- 08-04-20
Amazing
This should be required reading/ listening for Americans. A powerful book, and great narration by the author. Recommending to all of my friends and colleagues
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- Heather Morse
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A must listen
If you’re wondering, “How did we get here,” seem no further. Sarah lays out how the rise of Trump, Trumpism, the ReTrumplican mindset occurred. Follow up weekly with her podcast, Gaslit Nation.
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- aaron troost
- 07-08-20
There is a lot to unpack with American autocracy.
There is a lot to unpack with American autocracy & the Trump Crime Syndicate & Kendzior does a good job at hitting the highlights. The call back to the 2016 hacking of voting machines was a great reminder to the chaos done by this administration and the grifters it attracts. If you've been up on current events, this will all be things you've heard before but maybe you've been flooded by the scandals that are out daily life now since 1/21/2017 officially. If you've just now cast your line into politics, the wealthy and their manipulation of governance to their personal benefit, Sarah Kendzior does an admirable job of guiding you to those bloated fish. Challenge yourself to expand on this and research more of what she touched on. It is the duty of us to care about corruption and autocrats and to rally against it or suffer from it.
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- Dan Gottesman
- 07-09-20
important and scary democracy hangs in the balance
Sarah klKendzior reveals the compromising of American democracy in progress. Trump does not act alone
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- Jason Palm
- 06-15-20
Great book
The author did a great job. I’m just sadden that not enough people have heard her worries, analyzed the threats she’s outlined, or have done anything to stop the erosion of our country. Every American will come to thank this woman for putting her life in danger to bring us this information.
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- whilory
- 04-12-20
Unflinchingly honest
The word 'patriotic' is one that is carelessly exploited by Trump...the proverbial scarf waved by the conman as he directs your eyes elsewhere. Sarah Kendzior is the definition of a true patriot...a journalist who loves her country enough to painstakingly point out its flaws and its disappearing promise. Sarah spares no one in her searing determination to illuminate the truth about how every 'adult in the room' failed the citizens of this country...on both sides of the political divide. In the end, this is a story not about politics, but rather about the hundreds of powerful people who (out of avarice, corruption, fear, or weakness) played a role in elevating a man of great weakness and even greater pathological narcissism to the most powerful office in the world. Trump could have been stopped at thousands of moments over the past half-century, but there was always a bribe, a blackmail, a quid pro quo. Trump's ascendancy is littered with the discarded consciences of those who shrugged and assured themselves that someone else would stop Trump. This book is a lament for the American that could have been...had greed, systemic inequality, racism, and sanctioned white-collar crime been denounced,, had the rot of dark money not stained the walls of every institution, had ideology taken a backseat to compassion. While Sarah's book was completed before the spread of the coronavirus, I feel certain that she would feel as I do...the blood from the rising death toll is spattered across every person who failed to stop Trump when there was time.
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- Ahmed Ebrahim
- 04-27-20
Important read for every concerned American
Highly recommended read for every American (especially the young generation) to know how their country ended up here and where it is heading.
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- Diaries
- 10-27-22
Excellent
Scared me, but very informative. I only wish that others would take a hard look at what is happening in our country. Thank you Sarah for standing up.
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