Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising

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The instant #1 New York Times bestseller.

From the reporter who was once there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump—the key to understanding the upward thrust of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history.

Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump’s penthouse on election night.

The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump’s flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and looked as if it would signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was once a bomb-throwing pugilist who’d never run a campaign and was once despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. 

Yet Bannon’s hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump’s unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldn’t see. Trump’s campaign was once the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in The united states for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was once the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world.

Any study of Trump’s rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. Devil’s Bargain is a tour-de-force telling of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that made up our minds the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon and his allies, who in point of fact did plot a vast, right-wing conspiracy to stop Clinton. To be aware Trump’s strange rise and Clinton’s fall, you must weave Trump’s story in conjunction with Bannon’s, or else it doesn’t make sense.

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