Was Donald Trump inevitable? Was the Republican Party’s return to fascism inevitable? Is Donald Trump unusual, or talented, or important? Is Trump merely a symptom, or is he the disease?
We believe that Donald Trump is a specific character – created by his vicious father, a TV producer, and Russian mobsters – whose particular personal misery makes him this generation’s threat to America.
Below is a list of 25 scholars useful for understanding the miserable Mr. Trump. They include:
- David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump (2016)
- Bandy Lee, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (2017)
- Michael Isikoff & David Corn, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (2018)
- G.B. Trudeau, #SAD!: Doonesbury in the Time of Trump (2018)
- Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever (2018)
- Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (2018)
- Dr Jerry Post, Dangerous Charisma: The Political Psychology of Donald Trump and His Followers (2019)
- Sarah Posner, Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump (2020)
- Ronald Sider et al, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity (2020)
- Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man (2020)
- Washington Post Fact Checker staff, Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth: The President’s Falsehoods, Misleading Claims and Flat-Out Lies (2020)
- Philip Rucker & Carol Leonnig, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America (2020)
- Andrew Weissmann, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation (2020)
- Jonathan Karl, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show (2021)
- Craig Unger, American Kompromat:How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (2021)
- Peter Baker & Susan Glasser, The Divider: Trump in the White House (2022)
- Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America (2022);
- January 6th Committee, The January 6 Report (2022)
- Liz Cheney, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning (2023)
- Cassidy Hutchinson, Enough (2023)
- Jonathan Alter, American Reckoning: Inside Trump’s Trial (2024)
- Russ Buettner & Susanne Craig, Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success (2024)
- Simon Pierce, Project 2025: A Mandate for Authoritarian Leadership (2024)
- Ramin Setoodeh, Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass (2024)
- Fred Trump, All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way (2024)
