The instant #1 bestseller now updated with new reporting.This taut and terrifying book is
among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump s shambolic tenure in office to
date. - Dwight Garner The New York TimesWashington Post national investigative reporter Carol
Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker both Pulitzer Prize winners provide the
definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump s presidency I alone can fix it. So proclaimed
Donald J. Trump on July 21 2016 accepting the Republican presidential nomination and
promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet as he undertook the actual work
of the commander in chief it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal
investigation and constant bluster. In fact there were patterns to his behavior and that of
his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty not to the country
but to the president himself and Trump s North Star was always the perpetuation of his own
power.With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington D.C. Carol Leonnig and Philip
Rucker reveal the forty-fifth president up close. Here for the first time certain officials
who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth
for the benefit of history.A peerless and gripping narrative A Very Stable Genius not only
reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the strength of America
s democracy and its common heart as a nation.
