I Alone Can Fix It
Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
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THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'A blockbuster . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN
'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVER
The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius
The true story of what took place in Donald Trump's White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full.
Focused on Trump and the key players around him, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. With unparalleled access, they reveal exactly who enabled and who foiled Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.
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Washington Post reporters Leonnig and Rucker return (after A Very Stable Genius) with a comprehensive if stilted rundown of the tweetstorms, turf wars, denialism, and desperation that roiled the Trump administration from January 2020 to January 2021. It's a sweeping study of bureaucratic dysfunction caused by a "poisonous, disloyal atmosphere" that engulfed the White House and federal agencies tasked with dealing with Covid-19, protests over police brutality, and the transfer of power to a Biden administration. Among the plethora of galling anecdotes, Leonnig and Rucker reveal that Trump expected the FDA to approve remdesivir as a Covid-19 treatment because Oracle founder Larry Ellison said it worked, that chief of staff Mark Meadows considered Anthony Fauci a "fearmonger" and blocked his TV appearances, and that Rudy Giuliani's advice to Trump on election night was to "just say we won." Unfortunately, the book's moment-by-moment accumulation of detail grows dull at times, and the desire of Leonnig and Rucker's largely anonymous sources to shift blame and preserve their own reputations makes it hard to parse what actually happened during controversial events such as the violent removal of protestors from Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square for a Trump photo op. This deeply sourced first draft of history is long on access but short on definitive insights.
