I Alone Can Fix It; Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

New York: Penguin Press, 2021. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Jabin Botsford (Jacket photograph) and Melina Marx. xii, [2], 578 pages. Author's Note. Notes. Index. Signed by both authors on the half-title page. DJ is in a plastic sleeve. Signed by the author sticker on front of DJ. Carol Duhurst Leonnig is an American investigative journalist. She has been a staff writer at The Washington Post since 2000, and was part of a team of national security reporters that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for reporting, which revealed the NSA's expanded spying on Americans. Leonnig also received Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting in 2015 and 2018. In 2005, Leonnig was part of a seven-person team that won the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting given by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California for a series of articles that uncovered unhealthy levels of lead in the drinking water in Washington, D.C. Philip Rucker is an American reporter and author. He is currently the National Editor at The Washington Post. Rucker received a history degree from Yale University in 2006, where he worked for the Yale Daily News He has worked at the Post since 2005. He became a White House correspondent and served as the White House bureau chief from 2014 to 2023. In 2023, he became national editor. He covered the Trump administration for the Post, as well as Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. He is also a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC. He is the co-author of A Very Stable Genius. is an insider account of the first three years of Trump's presidency. The second, I Alone Can Fix It, covers Trump's final year in office and its immediate aftermath. Derived from a Kirkus review: A hard-hitting exposé of the last year of the Trump regime packed with appalling revelations. This book, written by Washington Post reporters Leonnig and Rucker in their sequel to A Very Stable Genius, recounts "how Trump stress-tested the republic, twisting the country's institutions for personal gain and then pushing his followers too far." Trump stalked the halls of the White House, finding that he could not explain away the pandemic. In perhaps the most newsworthy moments of this newsworthy book, Trump plots to engineer a de facto coup d'état that will keep him in power. His one firm check is the book's hero, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Perhaps surprisingly, Melania and Ivanka Trump emerge as adults in the room. In a carefully structured narrative that goes from bad to worse, the authors portray Trump as fully self-satisfied as the Jan. 6 insurrection was taking place. To trust this account, Milley almost singlehandedly averted the unprecedented assault on democracy. In a characteristically blustering interview with the authors after Joe Biden's inauguration, Trump continued to insist that he won the election even while moaning that were it not for the pandemic, he could have beaten a ticket made up of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. A whirlwind of a book, full of Trumpian sound and fury—and plenty of news.