{"product_id":"books-devil-s-bargain-by-joshua-green","title":"Devil's Bargain","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe instant #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased 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 Trump's penthouse on election night. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump'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 who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Yet Bannon's hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump's unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldn't see. Trump's campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in America for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Any study of Trump's rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. \u003ci\u003eDevil's Bargain\u003c\/i\u003e 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 Clinton's fall, you have to weave Trump's story together with Bannon's, or else it doesn't make sense.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673163227409,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780735225046.jpg?v=1781523626","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-devil-s-bargain-by-joshua-green","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}