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    Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
    Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
    Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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    Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

    Written by Sarah Kendzior

    Narrated by Sarah Kendzior

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    New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.

    This program is read by the author.

    The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried American history – buried because people in power liked it that way. It was visible without being seen, influential without being named, ubiquitous without being overt.

    Sarah Kendzior’s Hiding in Plain Sight pulls back the veil on a history spanning decades, a history of an American autocrat in the making. In doing so, she reveals the inherent fragility of American democracy – how our continual loss of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption, and the secrets behind a burgeoning autocratic United States have been hiding in plain sight for decades.

    In Kendzior’s signature and celebrated style, she expertly outlines Trump’s meteoric rise from the 1980s until today, interlinking key moments of his life with the degradation of the American political system and the continual erosion of our civil liberties by foreign powers. Kendzior also offers a never-before-seen look at her lifelong tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time – living in New York through 9/11 and in St. Louis during the Ferguson uprising, and researching media and authoritarianism when Trump emerged using the same tactics as the post-Soviet dictatorships she had long studied.

    It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming, but it is worse when we let apathy, doubt, and fear prevent us from preparing ourselves. Hiding in Plain Sight confronts the injustice we have too long ignored because the truth is the only way forward.

    A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books

    "Sarah Kendzior, in her brilliant new book, is one of the few journalists who grasps what is happening. Kendzior is a student of autocracy... she has been warning from the get-go that Trump is working to turn America into one." -David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateApr 7, 2020
    ISBN9781250260994
    Author

    Sarah Kendzior

    Sarah Kendzior is the New York Times bestselling author of Hiding in Plain Sight and The View from Flyover Country. She has a PhD in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, where she researched propaganda and state crimes in authoritarian regimes. She is the co-host of the acclaimed podcast Gaslit Nation with Andrea Chalupa and was named by Foreign Policy as one of the “100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events.” Her reporting has been featured in many publications, including NBC News, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Chicago Tribune, TeenVogue, The Globe and Mail, and The New York Times. She lives in St. Louis.

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    • 5/5
      Nearly 90% of Amazon reviewers gave this 5 stars for a good reason. It is impeccably researched, honest and important reading for these times. This book reveals why we must not only know the truth, but keep up the good fight for our democracy. Warning: this book is not for sheeple.

      12 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      It’s all in the public record. Well. Not all of it. Some is hidden by NDAs.

      4 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Piece of crap. Blatantly biased waste of time. BIG THUMBS DOWN!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Another Leftist dolt attempting to blame the actions of the radicle Left on the man intent on cleaning house. But then what would you expect when you know your days are numbers?

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      ABSOLUTELY loved it. Thank you for the recommendation Sarah! Read/listen this book!
    • 5/5
      Sarah Kendzior was the ONLY person brave enough to speak up, and tell us the truth. She has been correct at every turn.
    • 1/5
      I think you are brainwashed by the radical socialist left. Their power based has been threatend and they want Americans to believe that Donald Trump is the enemy. He is not. Perhaps you should look into and write about the evils of the career politicians on both sides of the aisle. Truth is a big seller, unfortunately we can not find any journalist/author who can recognize truth.