The Case for Trump

The Case for Trump

by Victor Davis Hanson
The Case for Trump

The Case for Trump

by Victor Davis Hanson

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Overview

This New York Times bestselling Trump biography from a major American intellectual explains how a renegade businessman became one of the most successful — and necessary — presidents of all time.
 
In The Case for Trump, award-winning historian and political commentator Victor Davis Hanson explains how a celebrity businessman with no political or military experience triumphed over sixteen well-qualified Republican rivals, a Democrat with a quarter-billion-dollar war chest, and a hostile media and Washington establishment to become president of the United States — and an extremely successful president.
 
Trump alone saw a political opportunity in defending the working people of America's interior whom the coastal elite of both parties had come to scorn, Hanson argues. And Trump alone had the instincts and energy to pursue this opening to victory, dismantle a corrupt old order, and bring long-overdue policy changes at home and abroad. We could not survive a series of presidencies as volatile as Trump's. But after decades of drift, America needs the outsider Trump to do what normal politicians would not and could not do.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781541673540
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 03/05/2019
Pages: 400
Sales rank: 217,101
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of over two dozen books, including The Second World Wars, The Dying Citizen, and The End of Everything. He lives in Selma, California.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Introduction Meet Donald J. Trump 13

Part 1 What and Who Created Trump?

Chapter 1 The Two Americas 27

Chapter 2 Trumpism 67

Chapter 3 "Modern Day Presidential" 103

Part 2 An Establishment Without Answers

Chapter 4 Democratic Tribalism 129

Chapter 5 Republicans Lose while Winning 148

Chapter 6 The Ancien Régime 169

Part 3 Trump Metaphysics

Chapter 7 Trump on Decline 215

Chapter 8 Never Hillary 236

Chapter 9 The New/Old Crude Messenger 257

Part 4 The Ordeal, Triumph-And Ordeal-Of President Trump

Chapter 10 End Trump! 281

Chapter 11 Trump, the Tragic Hero? 316

Chapter 12 Mr. Trump Goes to Washington 344

Part 5 Epilogue

Trump Trudges On: The 2018 Midterms and Beyond 365

Index 373

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