
Unmaking the Presidency
Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office
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Narrated by:
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Benjamin Wittes
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Susan Hennessey
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 US 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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synergistically apocryphal
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So why is this book great? It’s great because it satisfies the parts of political junkies that love history. If you read all the biographies of all the presidents you will like this book because it weaves through the times other presidents have used their authority in questionable ways in the past. Of course, never against the nation’s best interests. The book builds up really well to explaining how this “expressive presidency” is a truly new and vapid and explains how BAD it is that there are cabinet members saving us from the president because of how future leaders might lose control of their underlings. It’s very persuasive, well researched, and tightly written, which is basically the only way to make a normal book into a great audio book.
Thanks to the authors for your ongoing service to the country and to my ears!!
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A GREAT BOOK
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Essential reading
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Also, I’m used to hearing Ben and Susan from their appearances on their Lawfare and Rational Security podcasts, so I loved that they narrated themselves.
Excellent
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Clear about what makes a president
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