A Higher Loyalty by James Comey
American Carnage by Tim Alberta
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Collusion by Luke Harding
Dark Money by Jane Mayer
Dark Towers by David Enrich
Democracy In Chains by Nancy MacLean
Everything Trump Touches Dies by Rick Wilson
Facts And Fears by James R. Clapper
Fascism A Warning by Madeline Albright
Fear by Bob Woodward
Fire And Fury by Michael Wolff
Friendly Fascism by Bertram Gross
House Of Trump – House Of Putin by Craig Unger
How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Kushner Inc. - Greed. Ambition. Corruption. By Vicky Ward
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland
Proof Of Collusion by Seth Abramson
Red Notice by Bill Browder
Russian Roulette by Michael Isikoff and David Corn
The Case For Impeaching Trump by Elizabeth Holtzman
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
The Mueller Report by The Washington Post
The Only Game In Town by Mohamed A. El-Erian
The Threat by Andrew McCabe
For the first time in almost 4 years, there are no books on my night table waiting patiently/persistently for me to get to them. I actually feel a sense of relief, but it'll be short lived as I plan on ordering at least 2 new books this month.
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
Before I do that, I'll read "The Plot Against America", a novel by Philip Roth. I kept this as a treat for myself - a reward for completing my list - a list that kept growing.
This book was first published in 2004. It's an alternative history of the United States premised upon Charles Lindberg defeating FDR in 1940.
This seems most appropriate since we are living in an alternative reality - an unreal America - an America where a Russian Asset has become President and we are in the throes of fascism.
The first Philip Roth book I read was "Goodbye, Columbus". It was published in 1959, I was a teenager when I read it. Ten years later I read "Portnoy's Complaint". Now, over half a century later, I'm reading Philip again.
Philip died in 2018, before the midterm elections.
In a 2017 email, he wrote, "As for how Trump threatens us, I would say that, like the anxious and fear-ridden families in my book, what is most terrifying is that he makes any and everything possible, including, of course, the nuclear catastrophe."
In the same email he describes Trump: "is ignorant of government, of history, of science, of philosophy, of art, incapable of expressing or recognizing subtlety or nuance, destitute of all decency, and wielding a vocabulary of seventy-seven words that is better called Jerkish than English."
This article by Pat Ralph is worth reading.
https://www.businessinsider.com/philip-roth-trump-and-plot-against-america-2018-5
Philip didn't live to see us take back the House. He didn't live to see us bury "The Mueller Report" either.
Holy Moly!
I will be reading The Plot against America, too. Although I not really in a mood for horror stories since I am living in one. (Just the news really. I am really lucky, a loving wife, kids, and no one is sick.) Take care of your young ones. (AKA SC tvrtle)
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