From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal expose of how his party became what it is today
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
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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