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THE DIVIDER: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
“His job wasn’t to get things done but to stop certain things from happening, to prevent disaster.” This line from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s detail-rich history of the Trump administration, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” technically applies to his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. But in truth it describes any of several dozen beleaguered helpmates to the former president, whose propensity for petulant rage kept Washington in a fit of indignation and the White House in a mode of perpetual damage control for the better part of four years. Comprehensively researched and briskly told, “The Divider” is a story of disasters averted as well as disasters realized.
Squeezing the tumultuous events of the long national fever dream that was the Donald Trump presidency between two covers — even two covers placed far apart, as is the case with this 752-page anvil — would tax the skills of the nimblest journalist. Yet the husband-and-wife team of Baker and Glasser pull it off with assurance. It’s all here: the culture wars and the corruption, the demagogy and the autocrat-love, the palace intrigue and the public tweets, the pandemic and the impeachments (plural).
To be sure, asking readers in 2022 to revisit the Sturm und Drang of the Trump years may seem like asking a Six Flags patron, staggering from a ride on the Tsunami, to jump back on for another go. But those with strong stomachs will find a lot they didn’t know, and a lot more that they once learned but maybe, amid the daily barrage of breaking-news banner headlines, managed to forget.
Baker, The New York Times’s chief White House correspondent, and Glasser, a staff writer at The New Yorker, are the perfect pair to write this book, with a combined 60 years of Washington reporting experience and two other jointly authored books to their names. (I know both of them through professional circles; when Glasser edited Politico Magazine, she hired me to write a history column.) For a book produced so quickly, they draw on an impressively broad array of materials: hundreds of original interviews, reams of contemporary daily journalism, and an already-fat library of memoirs and journalistic accounts of the Trump years, including those by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa , Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, and Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin . (Something about writing a Trump book seems to call for two reporters.)
Even while cataloging Trump’s most outrageous behaviors, Baker and Glasser strive to maintain a professional, dispassionate tone: analytical but not polemical. Inevitably, however, their low opinion of Trump shines through, occasionally garnished with a soupçon of snark. Of the president’s curiosity about whether nuclear bombs might deter tropical storms, they write, “Trump’s plans to deal with Hurricane Dorian thankfully did not involve atomic warfare.”
Apart from the landmark Abraham Accords of 2020, which opened diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab nations, they devote only fleeting attention to Trump’s concrete achievements, of which even critics must concede there were a few. The strength of the pre-Covid economy — for which Trump doesn’t deserve full credit but which still helped millions of voters look past his failings and failures — is little discussed. Trump fans will surely object to the consistently negative judgments about their tribune.
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New book ‘The Divider’ takes a look at Trump presidency and what led to January 6 attacks
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A new book by two veteran journalists takes a look behind the scenes of Donald Trump's presidency. Husband and wife reporting team Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker say that to understand what happened on January 6, it is necessary to understand what happened the day Trump took office and all the days in between. That is the focus of their book, "The Divider."
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Investigations of the January 6 Capitol attack are still under way.
But, as husband-and-wife reporting team Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of "The New Yorker" explain in their latest book, to understand what happened on January 6, 2021, it is necessary to understand what happened on January 20, 2017, the day President Donald Trump took office, and all the days in between.
And that is the focus of their book "The Divider," which is out this week.
And we welcome you both, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, to the "NewsHour."
So, this is an eye-popping book literally from the first page, when you lay out your premise that that January 6 attack — and I'm quoting — "was the inexorable culmination of a sustained four-year war on the institutions and traditions of American democracy."
Peter, that is a stunning statement about the president of the United States.
Peter Baker, Co-Author, "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021": Yes. No, it really is.
But that's the case here. January 6 was not an aberration. It wasn't an outlier. It was, in fact, predictable eminently, if you pay attention to everything he was doing up until that point. He tried to turn the institutions of American government into his personal political instruments, the Justice Department, the military.
And all of these efforts basically lead up to this moment where he's refusing to accept the democratic election in which he lost. And I think, to understand that, we have to understand what he was doing for four years. Nobody else has gone back to take that look.
Susan, there's so much to ask you all.
But a lot of the book is about the division between the people who were around Trump, the people who were, in essence, trying to protect the country and worried about the country. And then there were others who were enabling him.
What's a good example of one of those who was worried more about the country than they were about President Trump?
Susan Glasser, Co-Author, "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021": Well, you're right.
And the complication, of course, Judy, is, in that faction-ridden White House, the enablers sometimes were also the resistors. But, then again, the enablers were also the people who facilitated Trump. Without them, Donald Trump would have just been some angry old dude shouting at the television in between golf games, right?
But there was a group, in particular, of national security officials who defined their roles as protecting the nonpartisan traditions of national security. And this is a through line that goes back to the very beginning of the Trump administration. He called people like Jim Mattis and John Kelly "my generals."
He had clashes with them. He, extraordinarily, told John Kelly, his second White House chief of staff, why aren't you like the "bleeping" Nazi generals in World War II? Kelly said, what on earth are you talking about? He said, they were totally loyal to Hitler. Kelly said, no, no, they weren't. They tried to kill Hitler three times.
But Donald Trump defined service to the country as service to him personally. And so you go forward to 2020 and his clash with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley. And, for me as a reporter, getting ahold of a copy of Milley's unsent resignation letter in which he called the president of the United States a danger, a threat to national security, he said, you're doing grave and irreparable harm to the contrary, it's still mind-blowing.
Was there one point, Susan, when you felt the country came closest to coming off the rails? We're clearly and rightly focused on January the 6th. But there were other moments as well.
Susan Glasser:
Well, that's exactly right, Judy.
I mean, all of 2020, in many ways, was a catastrophic year for this country, the manipulation of a public health crisis, a once-in-a-century pandemic to exacerbate the divisions within American society, to turn something like a piece of cloth worn over the face as a public health measure into a badge, a partisan affiliation. This is a terrible tragedy for the American people, no matter where they live, right?
And then I think the testing of institutions that we wrote about that existed throughout, Donald Trump seriously considered in a five-hour meeting in the White House after he lost reelection imposing martial law. He didn't throw the people out of the Oval Office and say, what are you talking about?
In December 2021, he spent hours contemplating unprecedented steps. And, as it is, we faced a situation that has never before happened in American history, in which a president of the United States refused to accept his defeat and sought to overturn the election. That's never happened before, no Democrat, no Republican, no president, period.
Did you come away thinking that, if these — some of these individuals around the president had been more — just had more courage in standing up to him, that things could have been different, or that, no matter what, Donald Trump was going to do what he did?
Peter Baker:
Well, that's a great question.
And one of the through lines we found in our research — again, we did all this interview after he left office. We didn't hold anything back while he was in office. But we interviewed 300 people. And they were freer to talk, or felt freer to talk after he left.
And the through line through this was the struggle that many of them felt, the sort of moral conundrum, do I stay or do I go, those who weren't true believers. And they told themselves, a lot of them, the same thing over and over again. If I leave, it will be worse, because somebody behind me who comes and takes my job will be more willing to do whatever extreme thing he wants us to do that I'm trying to stop.
And you can see the difference in January 6. Think about John Kelly, right? Not — everybody, in some ways, is flawed in that White House. And somebody told us who was in that White House, says, there are no heroes.
But if John Kelly had been chief of staff at the end, he would have thrown himself in the doorway of the Oval Office, rather than let somebody come in and talk about martial law, whereas Mark Meadows was called by one of the Republicans we interviewed the matador, because he kept waving the flag and basically encouraging this whole effort.
And I think that people do matter. And people around him mattered, even if they weren't going to change his fundamental nature.
You do come away from so much of this, Peter, of course, looking at, if Donald Trump runs for reelection, what is the country facing? Did you come to a conclusion?
Yes, this book is not just a book of history, right? It is, in fact, partly a prologue, it could be, if he runs again.
And in some ways, it is a road map for where he would go. And we interviewed a national security adviser, not the national security adviser, a national security official, who spent time with him in the Oval Office. And this person compared to him to the velociraptor in the movie "Jurassic Park," which is to say that he learns, right, not about policy
He's not really a policy maven. But he learns how to make government work for him after four years in office. And this person compared him to the velociraptor, who learns how to open the kitchen door where the kids are hiding in the movie, right? He's learning how to do it.
And the point is that, in a second term, a lot of things that held him back, that constrained him in the first term wouldn't be there. He wouldn't hire John Kelly. He'd only hire a Mark Meadows. He wouldn't be captive to the people who are slow-walking him or resisting him. He would be much more aggressive and certain of his own ability. And he wouldn't have a reelection to worry about, to think about.
He could do what he thought was the right thing or the thing he wanted to do most,without being constrained.
And finally, Susan, did you come away with a sense of what you think he will do about 2024?
You know, it's interesting.
Peter and I visited and interviewed Trump twice in Mar-a-Lago for this book. And, initially, I think we would say that we were somewhat skeptical that he would, that he seemed sort of like a very unwilling retiree, but a retiree to Florida nonetheless.
But I think, in particular, as we have seen these metastasizing investigations of Donald Trump continue and escalate in the last few months, not only the classified documents investigation, the January 6 congressional investigation, but also the grand jury investigation, the New York state investigations, there — it seems that Trump has a sense that actually being a candidate for president might protect him in some way.
I also think that Donald Trump, as we all know by now, cannot relinquish the stage. And I think that the mere concept that the sort of Trumpists, the Trump Mini-Me's, if you will, who have sprung up in the Republican Party, people like Ron DeSantis, the idea that Trump is just going to, like, fade away gracefully and let them take over seems very unlikely to me, knowing what we know of Donald Trump's personality.
Well, there's so much to read, to reflect on in this book, "The Divider: The White House — Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
It's just full of information that Americans should know, frankly.
Peter Baker, Susan Glasser, thank you very much.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, Judy.
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'The Divider' looks at Trump's years in office through the eyes of his aides
When former President Donald Trump was in office, a number of his aides said they wanted to quit out of concern for the country's political and military future. Some did quit, some didn't. Political reporters Susan Glasser and Peter Baker conducted 300 interviews for their new book The Divider – two of those with the former President himself. They spoke to Ayesha Rascoe about Trump's White House tenure – and what it means for the American presidency at large.
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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker —an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious. The bestselling authors of The Man Who Ran Washington argue that Trump was not just lurching from one controversy to another; he was learning to be more like the foreign autocrats he admired. The Divider brings us into the Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical, revealing how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, which cabinet members had a resignation pact, whether Trump asked Japan’s prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize and much more. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those around Trump—how they justified working for a man they considered unfit for office, and where they drew their lines. The Divider is based on unprecedented access to key players, from President Trump himself to cabinet officers, military generals, close advisers, Trump family members, congressional leaders, foreign officials and others, some of whom have never told their story until now. There are no customer reviews for this item yet. Classic Totes Tote bags and pouches in a variety of styles, sizes, and designs , plus mugs, bookmarks, and more! Shipping & Pickup We ship anywhere in the U.S. and orders of $75+ ship free via media mail! Noteworthy Signed Books: Join the Club! Join our Signed First Edition Club (or give a gift subscription) for a signed book of great literary merit, delivered to you monthly.  Harvard Square's Independent Bookstore © 2024 Harvard Book Store All rights reserved Contact Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Tel (617) 661-1515 Toll Free (800) 542-READ Email [email protected] View our current hours » Join our bookselling team » We plan to remain closed to the public for two weeks, through Saturday, March 28 While our doors are closed, we plan to staff our phones, email, and harvard.com web order services from 10am to 6pm daily. Store Hours Monday - Saturday: 9am - 11pm Sunday: 10am - 10pm Holiday Hours 12/24: 9am - 7pm 12/25: closed 12/31: 9am - 9pm 1/1: 12pm - 11pm All other hours as usual. Map Find Harvard Book Store » Online Customer Service Shipping » Online Returns » Privacy Policy » Harvard University harvard.edu » 
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THE DIVIDERTrump in the white house, 2017-2021. by Peter Baker & Susan Glasser ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 20, 2022 A scorched-earth account of an utterly failed presidency. The insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, was no anomaly but instead “the inexorable culmination of a sustained four-year war on the institutions and traditions of American democracy.” New York Times reporter Baker and New Yorker staffer Glasser are no admirers of Donald Trump or his MAGA agenda, the latter of which they hold to be a cynical non-ideology defined mostly by opposition: Anything Barack Obama might have deemed good, Trump deems bad. When Trump became president in 2016, the “Axis of Adults” surrounding him hoped fervently that he would develop a coherent doctrine that could be supported and reinforced by key staff members. They were soon disabused of that sensible notion. Trump did not learn, did not change, and did not budge. He ruled by division, and his base was an us-versus-them proposition, his White House an arena of roiling rivalries; everyone took part in the scheming. The authors are particularly good when they bring Melania Trump onto the stage. It’s a guilty pleasure to watch Melania maneuver Ivanka out of photographic shoots and remove her from guest lists. Trump, thin-skinned as only a self-doubting narcissist can be, was well aware of how disliked he was. As Baker and Glasser note, in his years in office he “would never go out to a restaurant in Washington that was not owned by his company,” knowing he would otherwise be booed and heckled. That did not deter Trump from playing his zero-sum games, and it ended with the only time a president refused to transfer power peaceably. Unfortunately, he left another legacy: Although Trump was “the most politically unsuccessful occupant of the White House in generations,” he altered the political landscape in such a way that “the Trump era is not past; it is America’s present and maybe even its future.” Pub Date: Sept. 20, 2022 ISBN: 978-0-385-54653-9 Page Count: 752 Publisher: Doubleday Review Posted Online: Sept. 13, 2022 Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 2022 BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR | CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES | HISTORY | POLITICAL & ROYALTY | UNITED STATES | U.S. GOVERNMENT | PUBLIC POLICY | POLITICS | GENERAL CURRENT EVENTS & SOCIAL ISSUES Share your opinion of this book More by Peter Baker  BOOK REVIEW by Peter Baker & Susan Glasser  by Jeffrey A. 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Comprehensively researched and briskly told, "The Divider" is a story of disasters averted as well as disasters realized. Squeezing the tumultuous events of the long national fever dream that ...
The Divider is the latest in what has become a procession of books about the Trump presidency, but there are reasons to think it arrives right on time.. Even after several Cabinet-level advisers ...
The Divider: Trump in the White 2017 - 2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser is a comprehensive overview of President Donald J. Trump's administration. Mr. Baker and Mrs. Glasser are journalists, and a happily married to each other. The book is a compelling narrative of an administration steeped in non-stop scandal, much of it its own doing.
With a narrative assist from Stanton, the result is a consistently titillating and often moving story of human struggle as well as an insider glimpse into the days when Times Square was considered the Big Apple's gloriously unpolished underbelly. The book also includes Yee's lush watercolor illustrations.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."— The Washington Post • A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times • "The book everyone is talking about."— Politico The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by ...
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021. Author: Peter Baker, Susan Glasser. ISBN-13: 978-0385546539. Publisher: Doubleday. Guideline Price: $32. The United States labours in Donald Trump ...
About The Divider. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency yet published."—The Washington Post • A Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker and Financial Times • "The book everyone is talking about."—Politico The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the ...
—The New York Times Book Review "The book everyone is talking about" ... The Divider is a book about the former guy's administration, that basically chronicles events from beginning to end. Pretty much all of the main topics in the book had been widely reported, but the authors include new details some of which, chances are, even if you are a ...
The Divider. : The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of ...
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser has an overall rating of Rave based on 7 book reviews.
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A new book by two veteran journalists takes a look behind the scenes of Donald Trump's presidency. Husband and wife reporting team Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New ...
Political reporters Susan Glasser and Peter Baker conducted 300 interviews for their new book The Divider - two of those with the former President himself. They spoke to Ayesha Rascoe about ...
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 is a 2022 book by American journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. It details the presidency of Donald Trump , with a focus on the divisions that occurred both among the White House staff and with international partners.
The Divider brings us into the Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical, revealing how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, which cabinet members had a resignation pact, whether Trump asked Japan's prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize and much more. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those ...
Format Hardcover. ISBN 9780385546539. The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale, told by revered journalists Peter Baker of The New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also ...
The Divider brings us into the Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical, revealing how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, which cabinet members had a resignation pact, whether Trump asked Japan's prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize and much more. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those ...
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. Doubleday, $32 (752p) ISBN 978--385-54653-9
The Divider is a book about the former guy's administration, that basically chronicles events from beginning to end. Pretty much all of the main topics in the book had been widely reported, but the authors include new details some of which, chances are, even if you are a regular consumer of reputable news sources, will still probably be new.
--The New York Times Book Review "The book everyone is talking about" ... Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's The Divider is a book worth everyone's serious attention."--Carl Bernstein, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Chasing History and co-author of All the President's Men. The World in Time. by Lapham's Quarterly View all (89)
The Divider is a book about the former guy's administration, that basically chronicles events from beginning to end. Pretty much all of the main topics in the book had been widely reported, but the authors include new details some of which, chances are, even if you are a regular consumer of reputable news sources, will still probably be new.
The insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, was no anomaly but instead "the inexorable culmination of a sustained four-year war on the institutions and traditions of American democracy."
The Divide by Morgan Richter has an overall rating of Positive based on 4 book reviews. The Divide by Morgan Richter has an overall rating of Positive based on 4 book reviews. Features; ... you'll discover a strange originality in this book ... This Hollywood thriller requires a suspension of disbelief but offers a few unique twists. Read ...