
It Was All a Lie
How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
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Narrated by:
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Dan John Miller
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By:
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Stuart Stevens
New York Times Best Seller
From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today
“A blistering tell-all history. In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses [that] the entire apparatus of his Republican Party is built on a pack of lies." (The New York Times)
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. Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Stevens shows how racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, from Goldwater's opposition to desegregation to Ronald Reagan's welfare queens and states' rights rhetoric. He gives an insider's account of the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values", and shows how the party's vaunted commitment to fiscal responsibility has been a charade since the 1980s. When a party stands for nothing, he argues, it is only natural that it will be taken over by the loudest and angriest voices in the room.
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Critic reviews
"Stevens stands out among Trump’s conservative critics because of his candor about the deeper rot at the core of the GOP.... He offers a grand mea culpa for his own role in paving the way for Trumpism." (Sean Illing, Vox)
"This book is going to become an important reference volume for future historians trying to explain what happened to the Republican Party in the second half of the 20th century and the Trump era. It takes someone with Stuart Stevens' insights as a writer to be able to see this story and deliver it to us the way he has." (Lawrence O'Donnell)
"An epitaph, of interest to all politics junkies, for a formerly venerable party by a champion-turned-gravedigger." (Kirkus)
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Devastating
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Wow, every Republican should read this book
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for anyone like me in the gop or never trump movement, its mandatory reading.
for any dems who saw for years what we never did, its worth your time to see into our crazy heads more clearly.
for trumpkins and vichy-cons, well....
superb
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This went down, like a hot knife thru butter. lol,
easy read at hi-speed.
Oh baby look!! The Emperor's not wearing clothes!
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He told the truth about the Republican party, schemes, wordplay, lies, games + racism.
For those of us who were aware of the harm + flaws it was refreshing to hear such honesty.
I hope folx will read it + realise we deserve better than this. Fight for our Constitutional Republic w empathy, compassion, sincerity + respect for all.
Its a shame this has gone on for so long.
Not sure the party or those disenchanted have the wherewithal to move forward in a healthy direction. But at least reading this book some folx will come to terms with the truth.
Thank you Stuart Stevens, for writing it.
Truth-telling
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enjoyed listening to this
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A Read Based in Accountability
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Must read for all Americans .. regardless of party
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Brilliant Summary Of How We Got Here
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