Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.

From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trumpâ€”the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.

Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trumpâ€™s penthouse on election night.

The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trumpâ€™s flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist whoâ€™d never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike.Â

Yet Bannonâ€™s hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trumpâ€™s unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldnâ€™t see. Trumpâ€™s campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in America for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind,Â believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world.

Any study of Trumpâ€™s rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. Devilâ€™s Bargain is a tour-de-force telling of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that decided the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon and his allies, who really did plot a vast, right-wing conspiracy to stop Clinton. To understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clintonâ€™s fall, you have to weave Trumpâ€™s story together with Bannonâ€™s, or else it doesn't make sense.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-07-18
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Penguin Books
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-07-18
Format	Kindle eBook

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising

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