Dire Warnings to America — The 10 Best Books About Trump
Will citizens heed the cry of so many credible authors saying the same thing?
Never before in modern history have so many authors, coming from all sides of the political spectrum, come out against so adamantly in unison against a US President. A surprising number of these authors identify themselves as Republicans.
When I considered writing a book or a full-length article myself, I realized we don’t need another book about Donald Trump. We need to convince our friends and family to consider reading one or more of the titles that are already on the shelves of bookstores across the country. So instead, I’ve decided to publish a list of the most popular available books written by those with firsthand, insider knowledge.
The sheer volume of recently published writings about the president is alarming. What’s even more shocking is the fact that so many of his hired associates are openly revealing information that demonstrates the president violated the law on numerous occasions and much worse. There is much overlap with the consensus being that Trump is unfit for office and only out for himself. “I am hard-pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” John Bolton writes.
Some of the writers, like Bob Woodward, are veteran authors with dozens of bestsellers, and others, like Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, had never even considered writing a book until now. There is even an upcoming book about all the books; “What Were We Thinking”: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era, by Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada.
Below is a list of ten notable books written by insiders with impeccable credentials.
The Top-10 Books Written About Donald Trump
1. Rage
by Bob Woodward — Associate editor of The Washington Post, co-author of “All the President’s Men,” in 1974, which helped bring the Nixon scandal public as well as “Fear: Trump in the White House” in 2019.
Woodward provides a startling account on the Trump presidency, quoting interviews he conducted with the president and has since made public.
2. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
by Mary L. Trump Ph.D. — Trained clinical psychologist
Donald’s only niece shines a bright light on the dark history of their family to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.
3. Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
by Michael Cohen — Special Counsel & Personal Advisor to Trump 2017–2018 and before that, Executive VP for the Trump Organization
Cohen shows Trump’s relentless willingness to lie, exaggerate, or manipulate. Trump emerges as a man without a soul.
4. Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump
by Peter Strzok — Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence and a 22-year veteran of the Bureau.
The FBI veteran behind the Russia investigation draws on decades of experience hunting foreign agents in the United States to lay bare the threat posed by President Trump.
5. The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
by John Bolton — Former National Security Advisor to President Donald Trump. United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006.
What Bolton saw astonished him: a President for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant weakening the nation.
6. It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
by Stuart Stevens — Author of seven previous books. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Outside
From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and profoundly personal exposé of how his party became what it is today.
7. A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
by James Comey — Former FBI director
Comey shares his never-before-told experiences from some of the highest-stakes situations of his career in the past two decades of American government. His journey provides an unprecedented entry into the corridors of power.
8. Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President
by Michael S. Schmidt — Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter
The dramatic, high-stakes story of those who felt compelled to confront and try to contain the most powerful man in the world as he shredded norms and sought to expand his power.
9. Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House
by Omarosa Manigault Newman — former Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in Donald Trump’s White House
An eye-opening and look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration. Their relationship spanned fifteen years!
10. A Warning
Anonymous — Described as “a senior official in the Trump administration
Anonymous offers a firsthand account of one of the most consequential presidencies in American history. An eyewitness insight into White House chaos, administration instability, and the people working to keep Donald Trump’s reckless impulses in check.
And the list goes on.
There are nearly 4000 books published that are critical about the Trump Presidency. Here are a few more of note:
Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Hochschild
Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to US by Amanda Carpenter
The Useful Idiot: How Donald Trump Killed the Republican Party with Racism and the Rest of Us with Coronavirus by SV Date — Senior White House correspondent at HuffPost
A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America by Philip Rucker
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff
Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising by Joshua Green
Of course, there are plenty of pro-Trump books out there, but in general, the authors behind them don’t have nearly the same credentials and backgrounds as compared to those who are authoring books critical of the 45th president. Even Tony Schwartz, who co-authored “The Art of the Deal,” has come out publicly against Trump: “As a ghostwriter, it was my job to paint him in the best possible light, but as I came to know the person I was portraying better and better, I felt worse and worse about what I was doing.”
Scott Stephens is the owner of Planet Blue Publishing and recently authored an Amazon bestselling book on the golden age of Roller Derby. He writes regularly for the social media blog, “World Peace and Democracy.”
Note: Some of the short book descriptions are from Amazon.
