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A Very Stable Genius
- Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber, Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker
- Length: 18 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Politics & Government
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Publisher's Summary
The instant number-one best seller.
“This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date." (Dwight Garner, The New York Times)
Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump’s presidency
“I alone can fix it.” So proclaimed Donald J. Trump on July 21, 2016, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet as he undertook the actual work of the commander in chief, it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. In fact, there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty - not to the country but to the president himself - and Trump’s north star was always the perpetuation of his own power.
With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, DC, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the 45th president up close. Here, for the first time, certain officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history.
A peerless and gripping narrative, A Very Stable Genius not only reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation.
What the critics say
"[Rucker and Leonnig] are meticulous journalists, and this taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date.... Their newspaper’s ominous, love-it-or-hate-it motto is ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness.’ A Very Stable Genius flicks the lights on from its first pages." (Dwight Garner, New York Times)
"Richly sourced and highly readable... It is not just another Trump tell-all or third-party confessional. It is unsettling, not salacious." (Lloyd Green, The Guardian)
"Imagine, for a moment, a high-octane courtroom prosecutor summing up for the jury a case built on the vivid testimony of multiple eye-witnesses.... You could scarcely ask for more capable advocates. Leonnig won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the U.S. Secret Service in 2015, then joined Rucker and others on a team awarded the Pulitzer for stories on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Their new, collaborative account...walks readers step by step through the first 30 months or so of a presidency like no other. They leave little doubt that they and many of their sources regard that presidency as an unmitigated and deepening disaster - a threat to American government as we have known it. Whatever may happen to that impeachment effort in the weeks and months ahead, it creates a moment of intermission in the Trump saga and a chance to consider how the landscape has already been altered by this president. A Very Stable Genius offers a harrowing companion narrative to be read during intermission." (Ron Elving, NPR)
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- Rebekka
- 2020-01-30
Good reporting. Too bad about the narrator.
I was looking forward to Rucker and Leonnig's take on the Trump gong show, but whatever flow their writing might have on paper is lost in this stilted, robotic narration by Hillary Huber. Her delivery is choppy and abrupt, and rather than enhancing the authors' work, it creates a frustrating barrier to it. I haven't finished listening yet, but I may just bail on it and pick up the paper copy. Too bad.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-01-25
Computer-generated voice narrator
Well researched and well written. There are details included in this work that are not present in other similar books. The narration is horrible. The voice is stilted and the tone artificial. I’m not sure I can get through it because of this and may have to return it.
7 people found this helpful
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- Canadian
- 2020-02-02
Wish I would have not bought this book!
The narrator is so bad it’s painful to listen to at times ! It can be the best book in the world but if the narrator is bad It runes the audible book! Think I will send this one back and get the WWII Book, narrated by the best narrator in the business Mr. Grover Gardner!
6 people found this helpful
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- HRPuff&Stuff
- 2020-01-28
An arch around Trumps whittling down of America’s public institutions
It is concerning to see how easy it is for one person with little insight being able to wreak havoc on democracy with help from outside interests and the sheer cowardice of elected officials to hold him to account. The reader was not a good choice. Suggest having it redone with a more natural speaker. She sound like SIRI at times.
6 people found this helpful
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- Alison
- 2020-03-11
Just awful narration by Hillary Huber
Fairly good but nothing new, heard it all before. The narration actually made me want to stop listening. This has only happened a couple of times before with Audible but this was the worst yet. Thought at first it was a machine. Dreadful.
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- Dog crazy
- 2020-04-16
The narrator sounds like a computer generated voice...
How weird is that?
The book itself is great (I’m very fond of these journalists’s writing). I got it to have company in the car. But I have to say that I’m thinking of tossing it for the printed version. It’s hard to tell but I think that Hillary Huber is the reader. OMG, at first I thought that the narration was computer generated. Now, I fully realise that they didn’t want someone who would read it in an over-the-top way but this has gone way to far in the other direction. Carol and Philip’s bit was fine; I can only wish that they had done the whole thing.
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- Sebastian Morris
- 2020-05-15
Great Review/Fact Checked
Shows us what we already knew but in a detailed version. The man is evil.
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- Ginger
- 2020-03-20
Hard to take
Had to put it aside for long stretches because it just left me feeling angry, hopeless and seriously shook up any belief in a ‘just world’.
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- estrobridge
- 2021-12-03
A must read!
A great chronology of the Trump Presidentcy. Puts the events of the last four years into order. Excellent work!
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- Jason McKim
- 2021-02-13
Clearly Biased
For the love of God, you can hear their disdain for Donald Trump in their voices. I don't see how anyone can see this as unbiased. Are you sure you don't work for Chicken Noodle News?
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- Troy
- 2020-01-25
Great unbiased account of events
A great telling of the facts regarding this presidency. It changed my mind about some key events and gave me a better understanding of the people involved. I think it's hard to tell a political story in this polarized day and age without our own opinions coloring the lens through which we see the events, but these incredible journalists are able to do it.
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- geokelley
- 2020-01-22
This is a well researched book, very shocking
But even more shocking was how terrible the narration. It literally sounded like AI robo-reading the book. Absolutely horrible.
Which is a shame, because this is a book to read if you are on the fence about Trump, and honestly I cant understand how anyone could be on the fence.
But this books documents the psychosis, the lues, the denials and delusions. Read it, dont listen.
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- DCNow2014
- 2020-01-21
Fascinating story, but poor narration
I got this book after reading segments in another setting. Brilliantly written, but the narration is not very compelling. The woman reading it--Hillary Huber--sounds like a robot, giving virtually no inflection. It's almost as if Audible is using a simple text-to-speech application. Unfortunate. I'm still in the early stages on the book and hope I'm able to continue. Odd because Ms. Huber does a good job narrating other books.
Be aware--the sample of this book does NOT include the voice of the actual narrator of the book. The book opens with an Authors' Note, read by Carol Leonnig, and a Prologue, read by Philip Rucker, so customers are not able to hear how the reading of the book actually sounds.
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- Chris
- 2020-01-25
Thorough
This was a great book. It was non-partisan, fair and thorough. I recommend this book to those who insist on blindly following this president. This book sheds light on what potential disasters await this country if he is re-elected.
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- Aurianna Reigh
- 2020-01-23
An eye opener!
A chronological, factual telling of Trumps chaotic actions, paranoid ideologies and spastic blunders. Bravo to the writers.
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- Amazon Customer
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Total Hit Job
Does a good job describing the west wing chaos, but is a total hit job on Trump. It side steps anything positive about his presidency and offers nothing new.
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- Sarah
- 2020-01-21
Well researched and well presented
A chronology of incidents you may wish you could forget - and that were actually worse than you thought, plus some new revelations. It begins with a brief introduction by Carol Leoning about the methods used in collecting the material, followed by a more lengthy discussion by Philip Rucker which amounts to a summary of the first three years of Trump's presidency.
The book is a journalistic telling of events, not an assessment of the Trump administration, but the events are such that they are in effect an assessment. Leoning and Rucker did hundreds of interviews in order to give intimate accounts of meetings, conversations, and often familiar incidents.
I wish the authors had read the whole book, not just the introductions, but Hillary Huber does a good job of reading it, in my opinion. Although I see some reviewers were critical of the narration, it didn't really impress me one way or the other. It certainly would not keep me from listening to the book. Her voice and intonation are clear and her reading is smooth. I looked her up and see that she has narrated many other books and that her ratings are quite positive for those. In a Very Stable Genius her delivery is straightforward, which to me seems appropriate. I definitely did not find it robotic. I am baffled by so much negativity.
I recommend this book to anyone who wants to be well informed about the reality of the Trump presidency and can stand to hear even more chilling details than were previously available in news sources.
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- rebyrd53
- 2020-02-02
A must read
A well written, thorough expose of Trump's tenure as president. It became abundantly clear that he was surrounded by intelligent, well-meaning people who wanted to educate the president in the hopes of making him successful. Unfortunately, he refused to learn, becoming angry and irate when these great men and women attempted to help him. The timeline shows the progressive self-destruction of his administration as one by one, he fired and replaced highly qualified people, usually through twitter in his typical behavior, unbecoming of a president. This book is both frustrating and frightening as it becomes abundantly clear this president is inept and unqualified for such an important role.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-03-12
Bias
A hack job from the first sentence. these two are not journalists.
Don't wasted your time or money.
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- Bic D Pho
- 2020-05-17
booo whooo, never heard of so many cry babies...
I bought this thinking these are highly achieved reporters, maybe they have insights worthy of consideration. It was nothing but a bash fest, and insights from sore losers, nothing objective. If you're not a fan of Trump, you'll find yourself nodding your head throughout. If you are, you would have never bought the book. I'm neither and I found this book way too one sided and negative to a point of annoyance. You don't have to be a "Genius" to see why they wrote this book, probably got paid by the democratic parties. Negative reporting may sell a lot of Newspapers, but not books... what a waste of time and money.
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- Magdalena
- 2020-10-07
We've heard it before.
No new insights or shocking revelations. DJT is a monster and a sociopath. The US is a banana republic. All true. All sad.