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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
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New York Times bestselling 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.

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.

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Instant New York Times Bestseller
Washington Post Bestseller
USA Today Bestseller
Indie Bound Bestseller
Authors Round the South Bestseller
Midwest Indie Bestseller
New York Times bestselling 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.

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.

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      • source: Hyperallergic
      • content: "Kendzior's prose is sharp and consistent whether the essay is data dense or an opinion piece. She maneuvers through big issues with a pace and clarity that makes unpalatable topics fascinating, and unfortunately, relatable."
      • premium: False
      • source: Record-Eagle
      • content: "The defining journalistic account of Trump's America does complain, but it isn't best-selling gossip fodder like Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury or James Comey's A Higher Loyalty. It's the book from the Midwestern journalist who barely mentions the president's name."
      • premium: False
      • source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 85 Books for Summer Reading
      • content: "Sharply written pieces about life and inequality in middle America."
      • premium: False
      • source: Shelf Awareness, starred review
      • content: An academic, Midwesterner and firebrand, Kendzior crafts work that looks unflinchingly at what ails the country."
      • premium: False
      • source: The Village Voice
      • content: "It's a call to arms, highlighting the struggles of disenfranchised, overworked, and underpaid Americans, and urging our elected officials to recognize and address the inequalities that have become even more pronounced since when she originally wrote the essays."
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      • source: The Arts Fuse
      • content: "The View From Flyover Country is well worth reading....Here is a thoughtful critic who knows how to sound the alarm."
      • premium: True
      • source: Publisher's Weekly
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        January 13, 2020
        Journalist Kendzior (The View from Flyover Country) charts nearly five decades of impropriety, shady business practices, and alleged crimes perpetuated by Donald Trump in this impeccably researched chronicle. Arguing that Trump is a “media-savvy con man” bent on dictatorship, Kendzior explores his protégé relationship with disgraced attorney Roy Cohn and his early dealings with the Soviet Union. She tracks Trump’s friendship with convicted underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, noting that in 2016 one of Epstein’s victims accused Trump of rape (her lawsuit has since been dropped), and contends that Trump Tower has “effectively functioned as a dorm for the Russian mafia” since Soviet Army veteran and mob figure David Bogatin attempted to launder $6 million by buying five luxury condos in the building in 1984. Kendzior weaves autobiographical sketches and broad overviews of American culture and geopolitical events into her narrative; in many cases, these digressions create a more comprehensive picture, while others, including an extended thread on tabloid “voyeurism,” feel like tangents. Political junkies will be familiar with much of Kendzior’s claims, but she offers a few surprises and many valuable insights into the president’s psychological motivations and methods of manipulation. This comprehensive, page-turning account presents a stark and uncompromising indictment of the Trump presidency as the culmination of a “decades-long erosion of American stability, integrity, and democracy.”

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        February 1, 2020
        A scathing indictment of Donald Trump and the "wider movement of white supremacists and international kleptocrats seeking to dismantle Western democracy." In a follow-up to The View From Flyover Country (2018), St. Louis-based Globe and Mail op-ed columnist Kendzior elaborates on her argument that a decadeslong "erosion of American institutions and social trust" paved the way for the present "autocracy, wrapped in a tabloid veneer." Although she reiterates points made by David Cay Johnston and others, Kendzior offers fresh views based on her experiences living in the declining economy of the Midwest and on observations as an academic researcher studying dictatorships in the former Soviet Union. In St. Louis, she watched the growth of increasingly harsh social and economic conditions from 2008 onward, foreshadowing national decline; in Uzbekistan, she witnessed the rise of dictator Islam Karimov, who sought to "make Uzbekistan great again," called independent media "the enemy of the people," persecuted marginalized groups, and abused executive power to enhance his personal wealth. Given those perspectives, the author has been tireless in sounding her dark alarm over the Trump presidency, in both her writing and public appearances. She explores White House nepotism, including the rise of the "rich, connected and unqualified"; Trump's "stripping America down for parts and selling those parts to the highest bidder"; and his close relationship to political operative Roy Cohn, who, since the early 1970s, taught Trump to "counterattack, lie, threaten, sue, and never back down." For decades, Trump "relied on oligarchs and mobsters from the former USSR for support" after being blacklisted by Wall Street following his 1990s bankruptcies. Kendzior also blames the "timid and plodding" Mueller investigation as well as the mainstream news media, "an industry for elites" reluctant to upset social peers. A passionate call for immediate action against the "transnational crime syndicate" that has supplanted the U.S.

        COPYRIGHT(2020) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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      • source: Library Journal
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        March 13, 2020

        A scholar of authoritarian regimes and an experienced reporter, Kendzior (The View from Flyover Country) predicted Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, as well as the current crisis of U.S. democracy. The author argues that the Trump administration's authoritarian tendencies that initially took many by surprise were preceded by larger political shifts that have eroded democratic policies and civil liberties since the 1980s. The narrative moves through important events and people in Trump's life during the 1980s through 2019, such as his Russian-connected real-estate deals and time on the reality TV show the Apprentice, while also focusing on the role that corruption and the media played in building his public profile. Similar to her previous works, Kendzior's latest maintains that Trump is a media-savvy, white-collar criminal. She links the changing landscape of media with Trump's political rise. VERDICT A chilling account of how the media, government, and public have failed to hold Trump accountable, and how this has significantly impacted U.S. democracy. Recommended for readers curious about the intersection of politics and media.--Rebekah Kati, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

        Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Authors Round the South Bestseller
Midwest Indie Bestseller
New York Times bestselling 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.

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...

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