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canetoad

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Mon Jun 29, 2026, 04:04 AM 8 hrs ago

This is one of the best books ever written about Donald Trump [View all]

Trump 2.0 promises a trove of hard-hitting accounts of Donald Trump’s second term as president of the United States. For Trump 1.0 – which ended with his 2020 electoral defeat to Joe Biden – extraordinary books by the best American journalists flooded bookstores in the US and around the world. These included The Divider: Trump in the White House by The New York Times’ journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, and Peril by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and CBS’ Robert Costa. Woodward also authored two solo accounts, Rage and Fear: Trump in the White House, while Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, also from the Post, contributed A Very Stable Genius.

These volumes provided shock-and-awe accounts of a presidential term of chaos and tumult, especially Trump’s wars with his staff and generals, as well as the events that led to his two impeachments for abuse of power. America’s democracy is still haunted by Trump’s impeachment for summoning his fiercest supporters to storm the Capitol to try to overturn the 2020 election.

Maggie Haberman has been covering Trump for more than two decades. Jonathan Swan, a native son of Australia, was a journalist with The Sydney Morning Herald before he set out for Washington with Axios and now The New York Times. Swan won an Emmy for his video interview with Trump, where he fact-checked Trump’s words and actions in real time.

Regime Change is the first of what will be a second wave of chronicling Trump’s return to power. Trump has evolved in this second term. Trump’s greatest asset is power. He covets attaining, and revels in wielding, absolute power.

https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/this-is-one-of-the-best-books-ever-written-about-donald-trump-20260627-p60akf.html

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