Including 25 close art illustrations of vaginas! On October 7, 2016, during the 2016 United presidential election, The Washington Post released a video and accompanying article about Donald Trump and Billy Bush having "an extremely lewd conversation about women" in 2005. In the video, Trump indicated that he might start kissing a woman that he and Bush were about to meet during the filming of an episode of Access Hollywood, a show owned by NBCUniversal. Trump then said: "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it, you can do anything ... grab them by the pussy." The recording provoked strong reactions by media figures and politicians across the political spectrum. Thousands of people - many wearing pink 'pussy hats' - have turned out in support of women's rights in Washington DC as part of a show of action on Donald Trump's first day as US president.
Why cry when you can laugh (and cry)? Read hundreds of full-color cartoons chronicling the absurdities, the tragedies, and the significance of the horrible, terrible, no-good 2016 presidential election. From the moment Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and the "Republican Clown Car" launched the election season, to the moment the electoral college declared Donald Trump the winner. This book features award-winning editorial cartoons by Darrin Bell, along with election-related comic strips selected from his two newspaper strips, "Candorville" and "Rudy Park."
New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores Donald Trump’s attitudes toward women by providing in-depth analysis and background on the women who have had the most profound influence on his life—the mother and grandmother who raised him, the wives who lived with him, and the daughter who is poised to inherit it all. Has any president in the history of the United States had a more fraught relationship with women than Donald Trump? He flagrantly cheated on all three of his wives, brushed off multiple accusations of sexual assault, publicly ogled his eldest daughter, bought the silence of a porn star and a Playmate, and proclaimed his now-infamous seduction technique: “grab ’em by the pussy.” Golden Handcuffs is a comprehensive and provocative account of the women who have been closest to Trump—his German-immigrant grandmother, Elizabeth, the uncredited founder of the Trump Organization; his Scottish-immigrant mother, Mary, who acquired a taste for wealth as a maid in the Andrew Carnegie mansion; his wives—Ivana, Marla, and Melania (the first and third of whom are immigrants); and his eldest daughter, Ivanka, groomed to take over the Trump brand from a young age. Also examined are Trump’s two older sisters, one of whom is a prominent federal judge; his often-overlooked younger daughter, Tiffany; his female employees; and those he calls “liars”—the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. Of these women, Burleigh writes, “where they come from and what they do now and in the future matters because they have or have had the ear of the most powerful man on earth.”
Highly relevant! Perhaps one of the most relevant pieces of writing out there today. An instant landmark classic of indecency that means more than it says. This book is not for the faint of heart and great caution and maturity should be observed if you must venture into it. Sophisticated readers, however, will find the terrible ideas of our hero, "Mr. Crump," devilishly entertaining. Seriously though, this book is a crude social commentary on the character of our most newly elected president. The book consists of maniacal visions and advice on how to sexually assault women. Its purpose is to call into question the nature of abusive rhetoric and our willingness to be complacent in the face of it. Furthermore, it demands accountability not only from our so called "president," but from those of us who elected him as well. The book is written in a racist and misogynistic tone, and there is plenty of vulgarity to go around. It is mostly founded on the premise of the superiority of white men. The narrative takes full advantage of the attitude against political correctness and openly addresses issues that are often hard to discuss. There are themes of race, gender, xenophobia, white supremacy and idiocy that will keep any student of philosophy entertained. The book is insulting to the reader, but it is all part of the act. Mr. Crump treats the subject of sexual harassment as a sport and outlines tactics and criteria for playing such a sport. He references the sexual revolution of the '60s, deranged ideas about penis envy, and male sexual entitlement. He advises against falling in love and warns men about the strength of the weaker sex. He is an avid advocate of sexual dominance, and to that effect he proposes the ideas of money, power, race, good looks, and the right mental attitude as fundamental to achieving that goal. Crump goes on to clearly detail "how to grab women by the pussy." He talks about how to get started: where to train, what to expect, how to choose your victims. He establishes levels of difficulty in the game, and how to overcome those challenges. Heavily influenced by pop culture, Crump references several movies and news stories of the scandalous sort: Schwartzenegger's love child, Bill Cosby's allegations of sexual abuse, etc. Finally, Crump admits that in his game, as fun as it may be, there will always be a price to pay. He admonishes the reader of the consequences of engaging in such foul behavior, and concludes by predicting the rise of Trump. In spite of its silliness and shameful content, this book should not fail to challenge our notions about truth and decency. When filth, deceit and arrogance become a source of entertainment and leverage rather than condemnation, then it's time to start asking some serious questions about ourselves. There are things, awful, terrible things. festering under the surface of seemingly innocent boys' locker room talk. And these are things that we really must have a conversation about. The subject matter of this book is not to be taken seriously. However, what should be taken seriously is the fact that it exists, and that its source of inspiration is none other than the president of the United States. All in all, if there is one thing that the success of this book will do is prove one of the most valued tenets of the United States; a principle that Trump's own election has come to endorse. And that is that anything is still possible in this great country of ours.
Undergraduate and graduate students and scholars of film and television studies, comedy studies, and cultural studies will value this strong collection.
A New York Times Editors’ Choice and Best Book of the Year at TIME, Esquire, Amazon, Kirkus, and Electric Literature Jeannie Vanasco has had the same nightmare since she was a teenager. It is always about him: one of her closest high school friends, a boy named Mark. A boy who raped her. When her nightmares worsen, Jeannie decides—after fourteen years of silence—to reach out to Mark. He agrees to talk on the record and meet in person. Jeannie details her friendship with Mark before and after the assault, asking the brave and urgent question: Is it possible for a good person to commit a terrible act? Jeannie interviews Mark, exploring how rape has impacted his life as well as her own. Unflinching and courageous, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl is part memoir, part true crime record, and part testament to the strength of female friendships—a recounting and reckoning that will inspire us to ask harder questions, push towards deeper understanding, and continue a necessary and long overdue conversation.
As this bestseller predicted, Trump has only grown more erratic and dangerous as the pressures on him mount. This new edition includes new essays bringing the book up to date—because this is still not normal. Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway bestseller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him? That question still plagues us. The Trump administration has proven as chaotic and destructive as its opponents feared, and the man at the center of it all remains a cipher. Constrained by the APA’s “Goldwater rule,” which inhibits mental health professionals from diagnosing public figures they have not personally examined, many of those qualified to weigh in on the issue have shied away from discussing it at all. The public has thus been left to wonder whether he is mad, bad, or both. The prestigious mental health experts who have contributed to the revised and updated version of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump argue that their moral and civic "duty to warn" supersedes professional neutrality. Whatever affects him, affects the nation: From the trauma people have experienced under the Trump administration to the cult-like characteristics of his followers, he has created unprecedented mental health consequences across our nation and beyond. With eight new essays (about one hundred pages of new material), this edition will cover the dangerous ramifications of Trump's unnatural state. It’s not all in our heads. It’s in his.
A book on the implosion of the Republican party and the conservative movement, by a bestselling author and radio host who drew national attention after denouncing Donald Trump
In this “scrupulously reported biography” (NPR) Jordan documents how Melania Trump had discussing being First Lady nearly two decades before she landed in the White House and how she encouraged her husband to enter the race for president. Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump is “an extraordinary work” (Salon) that draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. We see that behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump’s inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential advisor. Jordan interviewed key people in Melania's close circle who speak publicly for the first time and uncovered never-before-seen photos and tapes of the tall woman with “tiger eyes,” as a judge in an early modeling contest said. The Art of Her Deal shows Melania’s ascent from a modest life, tracing her journey from childhood under a communist dictator to her complicated relationship with Donald Trump. The picture that emerges is “that the first lady is not a pawn but a player... and a woman able to get what she wants from one of the most powerful and transparently vain men in the world” (NPR). And while it is her husband who became famous for the phrase “the art of the deal,” this is the story of the art of her deal.
New York Times Bestseller “Not a conventional Trump-era book. It is less about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the unprecedented capitulation of a political party. This book will endure for helping us understand not what is happening but why it happened…. [An] indispensable work.”—Washington Post Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents: Donald J. Trump. As George W. Bush left office with record-low approval ratings and Barack Obama led a Democratic takeover of Washington, Republicans faced a moment of reckoning: they had no vision, no generation of new leaders, and no energy in the party’s base. Yet Obama’s progressive agenda, coupled with the nation’s rapidly changing cultural identity, lit a fire under the right. Republicans regained power in Congress but spent that time fighting among themselves. With these struggles weakening the party’s defenses, and with more and more Americans losing faith in the political class, the stage was set for an outsider to crash the party. When Trump descended a gilded escalator to launch his campaign in the summer of 2015, the candidate had met the moment. Only by viewing Trump as the culmination of a decade-long civil war inside the GOP can we appreciate how he won the White House and consider the fundamental questions at the center of America’s current turmoil. Loaded with explosive original reporting and based on hundreds of exclusive interviews—including with key players such as President Trump, Paul Ryan, Ted Cruz, John Boehner, and Mitch McConnell—American Carnage takes us behind the scenes of this tumultuous period and establishes Tim Alberta as the premier chronicler of a political era.
