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Regime Change

By: Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

‘A flabbergasting feat of political reporting . . . A news bomb on every page’ Tina Brown, Observer

‘A blockbuster’ Guardian

‘Gobsmacking’ Daily Mail

‘Eye-popping’ Economist

‘Deeply reported and gripping' Financial Times

‘Riveting’ Fintan O'Toole, New York Times

‘Exceptional . . . packed with news that will stay news’ David Remnick, New Yorker

‘It’s sparked fear – and leak inquiries – in the White House’ Sunday Times

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Few expected Donald Trump to return to the White House stronger than before. The indictments, convictions, assassination attempts, and four years of political exile made him not weaker but more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble than any President that came before him.

Regime Change is the definitive account of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms. Journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman investigate the decisions that have defined Trump’s second term, which has been liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him ‘no’ are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles.

Haberman and Swan take you behind the scenes of a presidency that has launched a new war in the Middle East, sealed the border, deployed National Guard troops into American cities, transformed the Justice Department into an instrument of retribution against the President’s enemies, and turned the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a President operating almost entirely on instinct and a White House operating at the edge of political power.

Regime Change shows how Trump has wielded that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. A landmark work of real-time political history, this is the story of a President who has fundamentally altered how the world understands American power. Elections & Political Process Politics & Government United States World Emotionally Gripping Scary Thought-Provoking War
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Critic reviews

‘A flabbergasting feat of political reporting. There are times reading this book when I wondered how the hell these two New York Times scribes got such amazing blow-by-blow dish, unless they were hiding under the Resolute desk in the Oval Office . . . A news bomb on every page’

(Tina Brown)
‘Really amazing . . . extraordinary . . . [a] really good reminder of just how insane the times through which we’re living are’ (Marina Hyde)
‘Riveting and richly textured… [Haberman and Swan] wrest reality itself back from the distorted world of entertainment, illusion, fantasy and denial that Trump has generated around himself. It is this flood of provocation, atrocity, self-dealing and fabrication that makes Haberman and Swan’s counternarrative so vital’ (Fintan O’Toole )
'Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre . . . the book is packed with news that will stay news . . . This is reporting of consequence’
(David Remnick)
‘Eye-popping . . . dogged, meticulous reporting that illuminates how exceptional this White House is’
‘Gobsmacking . . . By the end, it’s hard to disagree with the subtitle’
‘Regime Change paints a vivid and deeply unsettling tableau of a chaotic period during which Trump has governed with awesome power and unprecedented impunity’
‘Deeply reported and gripping . . replete with telling detail’
‘While there have been plenty of books on the US president, this one stands out. It’s sparked fear — and leak inquiries — in the White House due to the depth of its reporting’
‘One of the best books ever written about Donald Trump’
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Great book! But for me the performance of the narrator is leaving a lot of money on the table.

Important Narrative Let Down By Lackluster Reading

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It is hard to know whether to categorize this book as politics, current events or history. The timeframe is very recent but the authors have accumulated an impressive number of insider anecdotes that have the feel of truth. The anecdotes enlighten the headlines but still have the ability to shock in their detail. How did the authors collect such information when so much of this was supposed to be secret or at least confidential? How did the Situation Room, one of the most secure rooms in the world, disclose its secrets? A great many of the insiders must have decided to speak. Time will tell whether this work will last as the revealing portrait it appears today but it is an engaging, revealing and exciting look at the Trump presidency. The audio book is a great way to digest the information in a series of settings.

Shockingly revealing despite knowing the headlines

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De centrale stelling van het boek is dat Trump in zijn tweede termijn volledig is bevrijd van eerdere institutionele kaders. Ervaren adviseurs en kritische juristen zijn vervangen door loyalisten, waardoor zijn besluitvorming bijna uitsluitend op intuïtie rust.

Het negeren van rechterlijke bevelen en het passeren van het Congres bij militaire acties, zoals in Iran.

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Excellent deep dive in to the first year of Donald Trump and his administration during his second term in office.
Balanced acount of the facts and devoid of hearsay or unverified reports.
Sources have been thoroughly scrutinised and only reliable evidence has been included.
Regime Change is a great read, expertly compiled and written.

Balanced and objective narrative. Thoroughly researched and reliably sourced.

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Well researched and presented. Makes you wonder who will be able to check Trump during his second term. Looking forward to the second part!

Scary stuff

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