Hiding in Plain Sight
The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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Sarah Kendzior
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Sarah Kendzior
About this listen
New York Times best-selling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.
This program is read by the author.
The story of Donald Trump’s rise to power is the story of a buried American history - buried because people in power liked it that way. It was visible without being seen, influential without being named, ubiquitous without being overt.
Sarah Kendzior’s Hiding in Plain Sight pulls back the veil on a history spanning decades, a history of an American autocrat in the making. In doing so, she reveals the inherent fragility of American democracy - how our continual loss of freedom, the rise of consolidated corruption, and the secrets behind a burgeoning autocratic United States have been hiding in plain sight for decades.
In Kendzior’s signature and celebrated style, she expertly outlines Trump’s meteoric rise from the 1980s until today, interlinking key moments of his life with the degradation of the American political system and the continual erosion of our civil liberties by foreign powers. Kendzior also offers a never-before-seen look at her lifelong tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time - living in New York through 9/11 and in St. Louis during the Ferguson uprising, and researching media and authoritarianism when Trump emerged using the same tactics as the post-Soviet dictatorships she had long studied.
It is a terrible feeling to sense a threat coming, but it is worse when we let apathy, doubt, and fear prevent us from preparing ourselves. Hiding in Plain Sight confronts the injustice we have too long ignored because the truth is the only way forward.
A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books
"Sarah Kendzior, in her brilliant new book, is one of the few journalists who grasps what is happening. Kendzior is a student of autocracy...she has been warning from the get-go that Trump is working to turn America into one." (David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump)
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- Ericson
- 2020-10-06
A Must Read
People should be reading this book. Through some good research, it really gives perspective to the Trump administration thus far.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-12-19
Phenomenal!
Ms. Kendzior is a gifted communicator, & it would seem that the times have found her, to understate. She seems uniquely equipped by both education & experience, to put the Trump presidency & its fascist/anti-democratic "quality" in context. She also is one of the very few people I've heard or read to consistently, unapologetically, & emphatically proclaim how dangerous Trump is to both America & the world. Don't miss this book. Or her podcast, with Andrea Chalupa, called Gaslit Nation.
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- Mark Harcourt
- 2020-04-16
Exceptionally personal, and terribly alarming.
Such an easy read. while packed with detailed information to inform and alarm. Surprisingly touching.
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- Elias F.
- 2022-12-19
An important read
The most relevant journalistic read of our generation. A piece filled with important, shocking, terrifying and necessary information that we all need to know.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-11-20
A must read!!
Very informative and telling. How this American autocrat has escaped persecution for so long all the while being surrounded by some of the most deceitful criminals in the US is beyond me!!
Read this book!!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-07-01
Wow
Sarah provides a frightening view through her exhaustive studying of Trump and his acolytes. An amazing book. Informative. Highly recommend.
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- Lisa Robertson
- 2020-05-01
A Warning For the World
I fear this warning will go unheeded, but I am grateful to Sarah Kendzior for at least trying. This has been one of the most impressive and important books of my life, and I am terrified and saddened by the words within. I feel terribly pessimistic about the future but at least my eyes are open.
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- DrMom247
- 2020-09-01
Honest and Scary
I’m just glad I am a Canadian. This describes the decline of the US into an autocratic state. Some of the “saviours” like Mueller are not so good after all. I fear for that country.
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- Lyle Rode
- 2021-02-08
Wish I had those hours bacj
Really bad exposé if that is what this was. I beiieve that most of what is reported is true or at least believable. However, anything factual has been reported before. Everything else is innuendo with no additional supporting documentation and a few things aren't even possible. For example, ivanka carrying a briefcase around with $1.5M. That is 12"x12"x8" and weighs 33 lbs. Not exactly carrying around a designer bag
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