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An engrossing look at the Trump cabinet: the scandals, the incompetence, the assault on the federal government, the bungled attempts to impose order on an administration lost in a chaos of its own making.
Donald Trump promised a return to national greatness, but each day of his presidency seems to bring a new crisis, a deepening sense of national unease. Why, and how, has he failed his supporters? And how has he, on occasion, bested his detractors?
The Best People takes complete measure of the Trump administration, to grasp with clarity the president and his intentions, and how those intentions are being carried out-or subverted-by the people he has hired.
Alexander Nazaryan argues that the "assault on the administrative state" promised by Steve Bannon in early 2017 never came. What the American people got instead was Wilbur Ross hauling his tennis pro to confirmation hearing preparations; Scott Pruitt running away from rattlesnakes; Reince Priebus enduring insults from junior White House staffers.
And yet, bungling as Trump's cabinet members have been, they have managed to either damage or arrest many of the gears that make government run. They have given away public lands to oil companies and allowed corporate lobbyists to make decisions about what is best for the American people, and have done it all while flying on private jets and dining at the finest restaurants, at taxpayers' expense.
Meticulously reported and enthrallingly told, The Best People takes readers inside the federal government under Trump's control, a government assailed by the very people charged to lead it, a government awash in confusion and corruption.
From the Publisher
ASIN : B07G74T4DK
Publisher : Hachette Books (June 18, 2019)
Publication date : June 18, 2019
Language : English
File size : 613 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 305 pages
Reviewer: S. Warfield
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What the cabinet really looks like
Review: Alexander Nazaryan gives a good and honest, fair look into Trump's ever-changing Cabinet that is, by Trump's standards, the best for their positions. Most of them are not fit to serve this country. Corrupt, greedy and unqualified is more like it. A good bit of text is spent on one of the worst, the health and human services secretary, Tom Price. Price wasn't as interested in the health of Americans as he was in traveling first class and on flights that cost the taxpayer's a fortune. His own importance was his #1 concern.Drilling on public land, parks and reducing the size of national archeological treasure lands were all done by this cabinet that Trump started out with. Betsy DeVos, who most had never heard of, was chosen to head up the department of education, something she knows little about except for private schools, religious schools and charter schools. She has also been running things according to her religious beliefs.Truth, honesty and hard work don't fit the descriptions of most of these people and they are far from the best.
Reviewer: Abra Smith
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Well Researched and Well Written
Review: I found this book to be well researched and even toned regarding those chosen by Trump to lead his cabinet. The author brought in historical examples from past Presidents as comparisons, both good and bad. Trump wasn't the first President to have scandalous, inept persons in leadership positions. The degree to which the people from Trump's Cabinet have undone and changed the course of the Agencies that they were the head of is alarming, no matter how short their tenure. Well written.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer Thelma Louise Colvin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Best People
Review: The Best People was a great look back over these last two and a half years. Many Americans probably voted for President Trump only on the fact "that he knew the BEST people and was such a successful businessman. This book has opened many minds as to the effects of trying to govern such a complex and complicated country with people that were completely unable to do their jobs. The question remains WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
Reviewer: Write or Wrong
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: D.C.'s Clown Show
Review: If you hate Trump, you'll love this book. If you love this country, you'd better read this book.
Reviewer: Delon Weuve
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Useful, a way of focusing your anger...
Review: The Trump Cabinet has been a disaster to everyone except the most die hard supporter. This book lays out all the reasons why. It tries to explain why they were selected for their positions and why everyone in the book has been a failure in the task set before them by President more interested in personal praise than competency.It gives you the reasons to hate these people.
Reviewer: SusanMerry
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Hahahaha....
Review: So very interesting. We're in trouble!
Reviewer: Joshua Villines
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Places Trump's Cabinet Choices in Context
Review: The past two years have been a dizzying parade of horrifying news stories. It's hard to fully process the full consequences of Donald Trump's obvious mendacity and ignorance, because the examples come so quickly and so often. Nazaryan has therefore wisely limited himself to one vein of inquiry - Trump's Cabinet choices - over the first two years of his presidency.Many of those Cabinet picks are characterized both what they do not know (which is to say, how to interpret the relevant research for objectives under their purview, and how to effectively implement policies that serve the American people) and what they do know (that they want to serve themselves at the interests of powerful lobbying groups, and that they want to permanently damage or dismantle the departments and programs they swore to oversee). Making all of this worse is Donald Trump's fragile ego, his complete lack of a coherent governing ideology, and his infamous unwillingness to learn the complexities of nuanced policy issues - thus frustrating the work of the few competent Secretaries such as General Mattis.All of this is evident in any set of headlines or anecdotes from the past two years. What Nazaryan does, competently and with annotations, is lay it all out in one place and place it in the context of the larger consequences of both the longstanding Republican commitment to dismantling the government of the country they claim to love, and the more recent phenomenon of their privileging xenophobic ignorance and bombast over competence and intellect.This is a work of journalism, and journalism targeted at the mainstream American values of the educated professionals Trump despises. It is not historical scholarship, but it nonetheless stands up as an excellent, thorough treatment of the consequences of Trump's chaotic Cabinet. Trump partisans will view it as biased, but those who are horrified by the never-ending dumpster fire that is the Trump presidency will find a thoughtful, easily readable treatment of the past two years, one that neatly sorts through the mounting pile of distressing headlines and organizes them into a coherent, albeit overwhelming, mosaic.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Real news does tell the truth
Review: Continues to point out The Swamp lives and breathes his every word and action! Washington is more corrupt than ever before besides Nixonâs follies.