President Trump

The former president continues to dominate political bestseller lists, from staffers' tell-alls to his own compulsion to tell all to Maggie Haberman and Bob ...

[The Long Alliance](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/24/the-long-alliance-review-biden-obama-imperfect-union-debenedetti), brought depth and context to the near-two-decade relationship between the 44th and 46th presidents, emphasizing that the pair’s time in power together was no buddy movie. Not all the notable books of 2022 were about Trump himself. By contrast, [the Guardian learned](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jun/08/jared-kushner-james-patterson-trump-election-the-divider-book) that Kushner received assistance from Ken Kurson, a former editor of the New York Observer, and two other Trump White House alumni. Republicans like the far-right Arizona congressman Paul Gosar and his mentee, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, are much more likely to be rewarded than penalized for “outrageous, fact-free behavior”. [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-jan-6.html) reported that Kushner took an online MasterClass from the thriller writer James Patterson, then “batted out” 40,000 words of his own. “She’s like my psychiatrist.” But she saw through him, writing: “The reality is that he treats everyone like they are his psychiatrists.” Whether the system winds up in the “morgue” and how much time remains to make sure it doesn’t were the authors’ open questions. [Joe Biden](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/joebiden) for his stance on Russia, saying “demonizing [Vladimir] Putin is not a foreign policy”, nor “the way grown-ups should think”. In electing Trump, the New York Times and New Yorker, husband-and-wife pair wrote, the US empowered a leader who “attacked basic principles of constitutional democracy at home” and “venerated” strongmen abroad. The Kushners and the Trumps are not your typical families. They closed with an anxious meditation on the state of US democracy, quoting Malcolm Turnbull, a former prime minister of Australia: “You know that great line that you hear all the time, ‘This is not us. Peters caught Steve Bannon rating his former boss among the worst presidents, and likening Trump’s history-making 2015 escalator ride to a scene from Triumph of the Will, Leni Riefenstahl’s Nazi propaganda film.