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

"The first deeply insightful political narrative of the Trump era."

-DAVID LEONARDT, THE NEW YORK TIMES

THE SHOCKING ELEVATION OF STEVE BANNON to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was 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 exponent of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldn't see. His campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising

Now with a new preface on Bannon's ouster-and his continued power to shape the future of the right wing-Devil's Bargain is a tour de force that weaves together Trump's extraordinary rise, Clinton's fall, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history

"Indispensable"

-JEFFREY TOOBIN, THE NEW YORKER

Author: Joshua Green