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It Was All a Lie
- How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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New York Times Best Seller
From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today
“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)
Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials. He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass.
This is not a book about how Donald J. Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else. Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s. Stevens shows how racism has always lurked in the modern GOP's DNA, from Goldwater's opposition to desegregation to Ronald Reagan's welfare queens and states' rights rhetoric. He gives an insider's account of the rank hypocrisy of the party's claims to embody "family values", and shows how the party's vaunted commitment to fiscal responsibility has been a charade since the 1980s. When a party stands for nothing, he argues, it is only natural that it will be taken over by the loudest and angriest voices in the room.
Critic reviews
"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)
"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)
"An epitaph, of interest to all politics junkies, for a formerly venerable party by a champion-turned-gravedigger." (Kirkus)
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- Maria
- 31-03-21
We all know the truth
All Americans should read this book and have 5min to ponder about their values and what they represent for generations to come. Republicans are taking America to a level of corruption and revolting racism to another level of insanity. America is lost if republicans have their way and walking at large steps to a new Babilónia
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- john
- 31-10-23
Gripping inside account of the Republican Party’s demise
Gripping inside account of the Republican Party’s demise. Frightening. Looking forward to the next book by Stevens.
Highly recommended listening.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-09-23
Frightening
A very sad and frightening story from within the Republican Party, which is one of only 2 choices in the most powerful nation on earth at this time.
And the most shocking part… this was written before January 6th 2021
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- Mr A Bowater
- 24-11-20
An honest self-appraisal that needs listening to
The book is well written and well narrated [though it was a shame that Stuart Stevens was not the narrator, as author-narrated audio books help you to hear the emotions associated with the text]. For those who approach this book from a left of centre perspective, there will be much in here that confirms the Democratic critique of Republican politics over the last half-century, For right of centre readers, however, there is lot in here that will challenge you because the critique is made by a genuine conservative, not a progressive, who throughout this period believed that the darker side of the right was a minority to be marginalised only for Donald Trump to expose just how substantial this wing of the right actually was. If a principled, mainstream American conservatism is to ultimately triumph over the Populist Nationalism that has overtaken the Republican Party, the lessons from this book must be learned because just as Trump's nomination in 2016 came through a candidate consolidating an 'Alt-Right' that had played little part in Republican politics previously, the best hope for American conservatism is for a new, reformed conservative leader to emerge who can bring back to the party the Never Trump Conservatives and Conservative Democrats who would ordinarily have been Republican's but for Trump and the Tea Party.
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