STUART STEVENS is the author of seven previous books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Outside, among other publications. He has written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure, Commander in Chief, and K Street. For twenty-five years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nation's toughest political campaigns. He attended Colorado College; Pembroke College, Oxford; Middlebury College; and UCLA film school. He is a former fellow of the American Film Institute.
"Stevens stands out among Trump’s conservative critics because of
his candor about the deeper rot at the core of the GOP... He offers
a grand mea culpa for his own role in paving the way for
Trumpism."
—Sean Illing, Vox
"It Was All a Lie is unlike anything published in the Trump
era: a photo negative of the genre of self-justifying
apparatchiks... He’s written a history of the modern GOP from
an insider’s perspective, as well as something deeply
personal."
—Benjamin Wofford, Washingtonian
"A stunning indictment."
—David Corn, Mother Jones
“A blistering tell-all history. In his bare-knuckles account,
Stevens confesses [that] the entire apparatus of his Republican
Party is built on a pack of lies."
—The New York Times
"This book is going to become an important reference volume for
future historians trying to explain what happened to the Republican
Party in the second half of the 20th century and the Trump era. It
takes someone with Stuart Stevens' insights as a writer to be able
to see this story and deliver it to us the way he has."
—Lawrence O'Donnell
“A sustained attack… Refreshingly frank.”
—John S. Gardner, The Guardian
"Washington in 2020 often beggars belief: an American
President answering a deadly pandemic with
ignorance, inflaming racial unrest with racism, stoking
violent confrontations while his fearful party stands
mute... What if the accounting comes from one of the
Republican Party's most accomplished political strategists, an
insider provoked by Trump to reconsider his life's work? In fact,
it has. Stevens dissects several categories of deception.
Though he could not have anticipated it -- the book, completed last
September, does not include the words "coronavirus" or "George
Floyd" -- events of recent days keep offering improbably-vivid
evidence for his assessments.
—CNN
"A blistering attack on the modern Republican Party and its
wholesale surrender to Donald Trump... His willingness to tell the
truth should serve as a model for the mea culpas that Republicans
who enabled Trump’s corruption, norm-shattering, and immorality owe
us."
—Michael A. Cohen, The Boston Globe
"An epitaph, of interest to all politics junkies, for a formerly
venerable party by a champion-turned-gravedigger."
—Kirkus
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