PublishedSimon & Schuster, January 2019 |
ISBN9781501174155 |
FormatSoftcover, 352 pages |
Dimensions21.3cm × 14cm × 2.5cm |
From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administrations policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safetycompleted revised and updated.
New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more. In Its Even Worse Than You Think, Johnston exposes shocking details about the Mexican border wall, and how American consumers will end up paying for it, if it ever gets built; climate change, and all about Scott Pruitt who spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads; stockingnot drainingthe swamp, despite his promise to do the opposite, Trump has filled his cabinet with millionaires and billionaires; and the Kleptocracy, where Donald Jr. and Eric run an eyes-wide-open blind trust of Trump holdings to avoid the appearance of conflict of interestbut not the reality. With story after story, Its Even Worse Than You Think "diagnoses the Trump administration as agovernment by the least qualified and most venal among us (The Washington Post). This is a momentously thorough account of President Trumps alarmingly chaotic first year in officea precise and fiery indictment of an unstable, unethical president that concludes with a call for us to defend our democracy (Booklist) and is urgent, necessary reading (Kirkus Reviews).
