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100 1  Alberta, Tim|4aut 
245 10 American carnage :|bon the front lines of the Republican 
       civil war and the rise of President Trump /|cTim Alberta 
250    First Harper Paperbacks edition 
264  1 New York :|bHarper,|c2020 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    xii, 678 pages|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [617]-638) and 
       index 
520    Politico Magazine's chief political correspondent provides
       a rollicking insider's look at the making of the modern 
       Republican Party--how a decade of cultural upheaval, 
       populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP 
       vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of 
       insurgents: Donald J. Trump. The 2016 election was a 
       watershed for the United States. But, as Tim Alberta 
       explains in American Carnage, to understand Trump's 
       victory is to view him not as the creator of this era of 
       polarization and bruising partisanship, but rather as its 
       most manifest consequence. American Carnage is the story 
       of a president's rise based on a country's evolution and a
       party's collapse. As George W. Bush left office with 
       record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a 
       Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a 
       moment of reckoning: They had no vision, no generation of 
       new leaders, and no energy in the party's base. Yet 
       Obama's forceful pursuit of his progressive agenda, 
       coupled with the nation's rapidly changing cultural and 
       demographic landscape, lit a fire under the right, 
       returning Republicans to power and inviting a bloody 
       struggle for the party's identity in the post-Bush era. 
       The factions that emerged--one led by absolutists like Jim
       Jordan and Ted Cruz, the other led by pragmatists like 
       John Boehner and Mitch McConnell--engaged in a series of 
       devastating internecine clashes and attempted coups for 
       control. With the GOP's internal fissures rendering it 
       legislatively impotent, and that impotence fueling a 
       growing resentment toward the political class and its 
       institutions, the stage was set for an outsider to crash 
       the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to 
       announce his run in the summer of 2015, the candidate had 
       met the moment. Only by viewing Trump as the culmination 
       of a decade-long civil war inside the Republican Party--
       and of the parallel sense of cultural, socioeconomic, and 
       technological disruption during that period--can we 
       appreciate how he won the White House and consider the 
       fundamental questions at the center of America's current 
       turmoil. How did a party obsessed with the national debt 
       vote for trillion-dollar deficits and record-setting 
       spending increases? How did the party of compassionate 
       conservatism become the party of Muslim bans and walls? 
       How did the party of family values elect a thrice-divorced
       philanderer? And, most important, how long can such a 
       party survive? Loaded with exclusive reporting and based 
       off hundreds of interviews--including with key players 
       such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner,
       Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, and Reince Priebus, and many 
       others--American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of 
       this tumultuous period as we've never seen it before and 
       establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of this 
       political era 
600 10 Trump, Donald,|d1946- 
600 14 Obama, Barack,|d1961- 
600 14 Biden, Joseph R., Jr.|d1942- 
600 14 Bush, George W.|q(George Walker),|d1946- 
600 14 Clinton, Bill,|d1946- 
600 14 Clinton, Hillary Rodham,|d1947- 
600 14 Trump, Donald,|d1946- 
600 17 Trump, Donald,|d1946-|2fast 
610 20 Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) 
610 24 Republican Party 
610 27 Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )|2fast 
648  7 2001-2021|2fast 
650  0 Conservatism|zUnited States 
650  7 Konservatism|2sao 
650  7 Sjukvård|2sao 
650  7 Sociala medier|2sao 
650  7 Val (statsvetenskap)|2sao 
650  7 Conservatism.|2fast 
650  7 Politics and government.|2fast 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y2001-2009 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y2009-2017 
651  0 United States|xPolitics and government|y2017-2021 
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653    Dawit Isaak-biblioteket