The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius
Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The
Washington Post, where she has worked since 2000, covering Donald
Trump’s presidency and previous administrations. She won the 2015
Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security failures and
misconduct inside the Secret Service. She also was part of the Post
teams awarded Pulitzers in 2018, for reporting on Russia’s
interference in the 2016 presidential election, and in 2014, for
revealing the U.S. government’s secret, broad surveillance of
Americans. Leonnig is an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC
and the author of Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret
Service.
Philip Rucker is the senior Washington correspondent at The
Washington Post and led its coverage of President Trump and his
administration as White House Bureau chief. He and a team of Post
reporters won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their
reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential
election. In 2021, the White House Correspondents’ Association
honored Rucker with the Aldo Beckman Award for overall excellence
in White House coverage. Rucker joined the Post in 2005 and
previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the
2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. He serves as an on-air
political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and graduated from Yale
University with a degree in history.
A blockbuster follow-up to A Very Stable Genius . . . I Alone Can
Fix It pulls back the curtain on the handling of Covid-19, the
re-election bid and its chaotic and violent aftermath . . .
[Leonnig and Rucker's] book is essential reading. They have
receipts, which they lay out for all to see
*Guardian*
[An] incisive, dramatic and masterful account of former US
president Donald Trump's last year in office
*Spectrum*
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