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lightreadsUnmaking the Presidency by Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes
4/5. A sharp and articulate and eruditely scathing book that gets into what it actually means to say that Trump breaks norms. It's thoughtful about the presidency as an institution, with plenty of call-backs to prior disaster presidencies, and I think the general assessment of what has happened and what needs to happen is pretty much right. A good resource for the well-informed observer who wants to know more about the technicalities of executive power and executive tradition. I don't actually give a damn about Trump himself – his psychology is overanalyzed and frankly uninteresting – but this book manages around the edges to pin him down pretty much exactly.
4/5. A sharp and articulate and eruditely scathing book that gets into what it actually means to say that Trump breaks norms. It's thoughtful about the presidency as an institution, with plenty of call-backs to prior disaster presidencies, and I think the general assessment of what has happened and what needs to happen is pretty much right. A good resource for the well-informed observer who wants to know more about the technicalities of executive power and executive tradition. I don't actually give a damn about Trump himself – his psychology is overanalyzed and frankly uninteresting – but this book manages around the edges to pin him down pretty much exactly.