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The Bulwark Podcast
This book captured the threat posed by Trump during his four years in office, detailing his war on American institutions. It was described as both history and a prologue for what might happen if he returns to power.
Susan Glasser and Peter Baker's book, "The Divider" captures the threat Trump posed. But as they told Charlie Sykes, their book is not just history: It's also a prologue if he returns to power.
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Episode: Susan Glasser and Peter Baker: Trump's Hostile Tak...
This book captured the threat posed by Trump during his four years in office, detailing his war on American institutions. It was described as both history and a prologue for what might happen if he returns to power.
Susan Glasser and Peter Baker's book, "The Divider" captures the threat Trump posed. But as they told Charlie Sykes, their book is not just history: It's also a prologue if he returns to power.
Nobody ever took a look at the full four year history of this presidency, right? They did pieces of it. There's some remarkably good books out there, but they all did a piece of it a year here or a topic there. Nobody sat back and said, okay, what is this whole four years add up to?
As Peter said, we did something like 300 original interviews, all of them after Trump left office and his second impeachment in order to essentially take testimony, but it's also a pretty urgent guide to understanding the vulnerabilities in the institutions that Trump tested and tested over four years.
The book is The Divider Trump in the White House 2017 2021 Susan Glasser staff writer at the New Yorker Peter Baker chief White House correspondent for The New York Times thank you both so much for coming on the podcast today