One Nation After Trump

A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

By: Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann, E. J. Dionne Jr.

Narrated by: E. J. Dionne Jr., Norman J. Ornstein, Thomas E. Mann

Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

This program is read by the authors.

A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After Trump offers the definitive work on the threat posed by the Trump presidency and how to counter it.

American democracy was never supposed to give the nation a president like Donald Trump. We have never had a president who gave rise to such widespread alarm about his lack of commitment to the institutions of self-government, to the norms democracy requires, and to the need for basic knowledge about how government works. We have never had a president who raises profound questions about his basic competence and his psychological capacity to take on the most challenging political office in the world.

Yet if Trump is both a threat to our democracy and a product of its weaknesses, the citizen activism he has inspired is the antidote. The reaction to the crisis created by Trump's presidency can provide the foundation for an era of democratic renewal and vindicate our long experiment in self-rule.

The award-winning authors of One Nation After Trump explain Trump's rise and the danger his administration poses to our free institutions. They also offer encouragement to the millions of Americans now experiencing a new sense of citizenship and engagement and argue that our nation needs a unifying alternative to Trump's dark and divisive brand of politics - an alternative rooted in a new economy, a new patriotism, a new civil society, and a new democracy. One Nation After Trump is the essential audiobook for our era, an unsparing assessment of the perils facing the United States and an inspiring road map for how we can reclaim the future.

©2017 E. J. Dionne, Jr., Norman J. Ornstein, and Thomas E. Mann (P)2017 Macmillan Audio

Pleasurable Factual Density, much needed

With alarms sounding around the clock about everything from tweets to Melania's hurricane attire this book digs deep and dispenses with the alarmist mentality of general anti-Trump writings and interviews. Facts reign supreme and a forward looking gaze mitigate against the dark cloud that many of us see when looking at the immediate effects and implications of a Trump election and presidency.

Authors are not narrators

This is a great book but having the authors narrate the audiobook was a huge mistake. One author has a slight lisp which isn’t that big of a deal but becomes wearing after a few chapters and another one of the authors constantly sounds as if he is out of breath and struggling to catch his breath. I don’t usually recommend this, but I believe this audiobook could be made 100% better with a re-recording with a professional narrator.

Great insight into what might cure our politics

A thorough acknowledgement of what isn't working today in our political reality and a road map on what can help chart a different course, I found this book to be very insightful and quite reasonable in its assessment of the current climate. Perhaps if some of these thoughts are heeded we, as a country, can truly retain our greatness and further the cause of fairness and democracy throughout the world. However, we must start here at home.

Why few authors should record their own books

These guys are no Al Franken. They did extensive work but I recommend reading this, not listening to it. I listen to books while driving. This book is better for drifting off to sleep.

Excellent material & analysis, but…

The authors have done an incredible job not only in presenting and analyzing how our sociopolitical structures have changed over the past 30-ish years to have brought us to where we are now, but to also propose well thought out methods by which we can begin to not only fix much of what is broken but to also lay the groundwork for tru social & governmental progress.

While I am grateful for the authors efforts to present as up-to-date material as possible, I hope that a “revised” audio format with a professional narrator will be coming in the near future. The authors did a fantastic job with the material, but they’re not professional speakers. I appreciate their efforts, at times it can be difficult to listen to their “performance”.

I highly recommend this book for everyone who is interested/concerned about our government & society - for BOTH “ConservativeS” and “Liberals” who are dissatisfied with where we are as a country.

More reasons for revolution

Trump has lied and with the help of his comrades made a mockery of our election process and a joke of our country. He needs to go and the sooner the better. He’s nothing more than a sorry excuse for a man and a human being in general. Just a waste of air.

great book, one drawback...

This is an excellent book that every American should read. I just wish they had hired a professional to read it. At times it was like listening to a radio talk show host....a little annoying at times. Nevertheless, a great book.

Political review of the mess Donald Trump has created

Overall a good book, but probably would not listen to it again. Recommend to anyone interested in the disaster that Trump has put this country in.

Insights we all need to hear

I loved this book. It lays out how Trump won and what we must do as a nation to defeat him. I highly recommend it to every one seeking deeper understanding of how we got here and where we go from here. Let’s just pray that we are able to achieve the goals laid out herein before we end up in a nuclear war with North Korea!

Fabulous

Informative and inspiring. I would highly recommend it to anyone! Loved it cover to cover.