Carol Leonnig

"Carol Leonnig has been covering the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the gaffes and scandals that plague the agency today--from a toxic work culture to outdated equipment and training to the deep resentment among the ranks with the agency's leadership. But the Secret Service wasn't always so troubled. The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. Kennedy. Shocked into reform by their failure to protect the president on that fateful day, this once-sleepy agency was rapidly transformed into a proud, elite unit that would finally redeem themselves in 1981 by valiantly thwarting an assassination attempt against Ronald Reagan. But this reputation for courage and efficiency would not last forever. By Barack Obama's presidency, the Secret Service was becoming notorious for break-ins at the White House, an armed gunman firing at the building while agents stood by, a massive prostitution scandal in Cartagena, and many other dangerous lapses. To expose the these shortcomings, Leonnig interviewed countless current and former agents who risked their careers to speak out about an agency that's broken and in desperate need of a reform"--

The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service

Zero Fail

Philip Rucker

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Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

I Alone Can Fix It

Drawing on nearly three years of reporting, hundreds of hours of interviews and more than two hundred sources, including some of the most senior members of the administration, friends and first-hand witnesses who have never spoken before, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig take us inside some of the most controversial moments of Trump's presidency. They peer deeply into Trump's White House - at the aides pressured to lie to the public, the lawyers scrambling to clear up norm-breaking disasters, and the staffers whose careers have been reduced to ashes - to paint an unparalleled group portrait of an administration driven by self-preservation and paranoia. Rucker and Leonnig reveal Trump at his most unvarnished, showing the unhinged decision-making and incompetence that has floored officials and stunned foreign leaders. They portray unscripted calls with Vladimir Putin, steak dinners with Kim Jong-un, and calls with Theresa May so hostile that they left her aides shaken. They also take a hard look at Robert Mueller, Trump's greatest antagonist to date, and how his investigation slowly unravelled an administration whose universal value is loyalty - not to country, but to the president himself. Grippingly told, A Very Stable Genius is a behind-the-scenes account of Trump's vainglorious pursuit of power in his first term.

Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

A Very Stable Genius

THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A blockbuster . . . Essential reading' GUARDIAN'Packed with hair-raising revelations' OBSERVERThe 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 GeniusThe 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.

2020 ist das Schicksalsjahr der USA. Im November wird der Präsident gewählt, und die Lage spitzt sich dramatisch zu: Wird Trump es noch einmal schaffen? Und was würde das bedeuten? Dieses Buch gibt die Antwort. Im Gewitter der täglichen Tweets und »News« treten die beiden Pulitzer-Preisträger von der »Washington Post« einen Schritt zurück, um die Amtszeit Trumps Schritt für Schritt zu rekonstruieren. Sie nutzen eine Fülle von neuen Details und Erkenntnissen, die sie aus Hunderten Stunden Interview-Material mit mehr als 200 Verwaltungsbeamten, Trump-Vertrauten und anderen Augenzeugen gewonnen haben, um entscheidende Muster hinter dem täglichen Chaos in der Regierung aufzudecken. Exzellent recherchiert und meisterhaft erzählt, lassen sie ein Bild von Trump entstehen, das uns besorgt stimmen sollte: Seine Versuche, das amerikanische System und die Demokratie zu unterlaufen, sind erfolgreicher als gedacht. In diesem Jahr geht es wirklich um alles. - Dieses Buch müssen Sie gelesen haben, um in diesem Jahr 2020 mitreden zu können! - Wer dieses Buch liest, versteht die Hintergründe und weiß, was auf dem Spiel steht! - Ein Insider-Bericht, der Hunderte von Stunden Interviews mit über 200 Augenzeugen auswertet, lebendig und packend geschrieben, als sei man »live« dabei - Zahlreiche neue Erkenntnisse über Trumps Amtsführung; u.a. erstmals alle Hintergründe über den Mueller-Report sowie über die russische Einmischung in den Wahlkampf 2016

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