Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising by Joshua Green. Yeah, I'm still trying to get my arms around how Trump became president.
Started: 3/30/2019
Completed: 4/11/2019
Recommendation: Slightly Recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Words for which I sought help:
argot--the jargon or slang of a particular group or class.
Review:
"Like Trump, Bannon had cycled through multiple marriages and was rich, brash, charismatic, volcanic, opinionated, and never ruffled by doubt." Interesting correlations between the two men. To have such a long list of unflattering adjectives (and I particularly enjoyed, "never ruffled by doubt") applicable to both men as good ways to describe each draws interesting parallels that one would normally expect to cause clashes between them.
Bannon comes off as one would expect. Hyper-partisan and remarkably cruel. If that is your expectation walking in, then this book simply validates that. If you expected the book to humanize Bannon, it does. It is just that the humanization is pastel and the ugly is neon.
"Like Trump, Bannon had cycled through multiple marriages and was rich, brash, charismatic, volcanic, opinionated, and never ruffled by doubt." Interesting correlations between the two men. To have such a long list of unflattering adjectives (and I particularly enjoyed, "never ruffled by doubt") applicable to both men as good ways to describe each draws interesting parallels that one would normally expect to cause clashes between them.
Bannon comes off as one would expect. Hyper-partisan and remarkably cruel. If that is your expectation walking in, then this book simply validates that. If you expected the book to humanize Bannon, it does. It is just that the humanization is pastel and the ugly is neon.
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