THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER* UPDATED WITH NEW REPORTING * 'It's all here in this stunning first
draft of the history of the presidency of Donald Trump' Sydney Morning Herald'An icy Iago-like
glimpse of the emotional and moral nullity that may be the source of Trump's power' Observer 'A
damning well-reported well-sourced and clearly written haymaker' Sunday TimesDrawing 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.
