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Devil's bargain : Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the storming of the presidency /

The elevation of Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. Green shows that, to understand Trump's extraordinary rise and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Green, Joshua, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Bannon, Stephen K. > Influence.
Bannon, Stephen K. > Political activity.
Trump, Donald, > 1946- > Friends and associates.
Presidents > United States > Election > 2016.
Campaign management > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 2009-2017.
Table of Contents:
  • "It will take a miracle"
  • "Where's my Steve?"
  • Bildungsroman
  • "A dangerous way to look at the world"
  • Nobody builds walls like Trump
  • The alt-Kochs
  • A rolling tumbleweed of wounded male id and aggression
  • "The traffic is absolutely filthy!"
  • "Honest populism"
  • Burn everything down
  • "The FBI has learned of the existence..."
  • Afterword: Kali Yugo.