Unmaking the Presidency

Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office

By: Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes

Narrated by: Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey

This program is read by the authors.

The definitive account of how Donald Trump has wielded the powers of the American presidency.

The extraordinary authority of the US presidency has no parallel in the democratic world. Today, that authority resides in the hands of one man, Donald J. Trump. But rarely if ever has the nature of a president clashed more profoundly with the nature of the office. Unmaking the Presidency tells the story of the confrontation between a person and the institution he almost wholly embodies.

From the moment of his inauguration, Trump has challenged our deepest expectations of the presidency. But what are those expectations, where did they come from, and how great is the damage? As editors of the "invaluable" (The New York Times) Lawfare website, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes have attracted a large audience to their hard-hitting and highly informed commentary on the controversies surrounding the Trump administration. In this audiobook, they situate Trump-era scandals and outrages in the deeper context of the presidency itself. How should we understand the oath of office when it is taken by a man who may not know what it means to preserve, protect, and defend something other than himself? What aspects of Trump are radically different from past presidents and what aspects have historical antecedents? When has he simply built on his predecessors’ misdeeds, and when has he invented categories of misrule entirely his own?

By setting Trump in the light of history, Hennessey and Wittes provide a crucial and durable account of a presidency like no other.

©2020 Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

Timely read!

This is an excellent book and a must read before the next election. Unbiased and well researched, extremely eye-opening. Detailed but actually very easy to digest. For the record, I consider myself a Centrist/Independen

Well written and read.

I was not sure if I'd like 2 readers, but these 2 were very good.

The Facts That Are Hard To Hear

I really enjoyed the organization and the extensive research supporting the thesis. I would recommend the book to Republicans and Democrats alike just to be informed.

A Must Read Book to understand the Presidency

This is a terrific book and I highly recommend it for everyone who cares about this country.

PRESCIENT DEMISE OF DEMOCRACY

Astonishing and insightful view of the potential "Expiry" of our "American Dream". Note the historical view of our freedoms , threaten by a contemporary perversion of the fundamental precepts our Constitution. The President, enabled by the GOP, have purposefully abandoned the well-being of the nation and the world, to foster and promote their own self interest, power and wealth.