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Hiding in Plain Sight
- The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
- Narrated by: Sarah Kendzior
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
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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- Susan
- 07-05-20
Riveting and horrific in equal measure
Living in the UK I am almost daily open mouthed at the ongoing destruction of a once respected American political system. Donald Trump and his cronies have stolen American justice, American freedom and American pride!
Thank you for risking your life Sarah, I pray you and your family will be safe and your children grow up to know there is a better way!
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- Charly
- 09-05-20
Brilliant. Insightful. Devastating.
A fantastic book.
Kendzior's voice is strong and uncompromising.
She cuts through the nonsense brilliantly.
No spin, just raw truth rooted in objective reality.
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- Jon Sandiford
- 11-10-20
A good place to start...
Thanks to Sarah, fellow Americans will have a source for finding the truth. Truly excellent.
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- anthony mitchell
- 19-05-20
A penetrating and illuminating read.
superb. very informative. it deserves a wide audience. The narration works really well. I'll be getting her previous book for sure. Having listened to her podcast " gaslit nation" I recommend it also. lastly I have to admit I worry for the author, the people she writes about are dangerous , amoral and carry a grudge. Her bravery is inspiring.
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-02-21
Alarming, Compulsive & Necessary
I could not recommend this book more highly. Kendzior’s analysis is insightful, clearly thoroughly researched and presented factually. One of the best books I have read about autocratic regimes and the state of democracy in the US. Kendzior finds sense and logic - however frigthening that truth may be - behind the deceptively apparent ludocracy.
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- Marion F.S.
- 03-08-20
Well-founded warnings
Sarah Kendzior is a clear-sighted, intelligent commenter on US political developments. Her scope is wide and her warnings well-founded. Would that more people would (have) heed(ed) her warnings.
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- Shiona
- 01-08-20
Great book, really learned a lot!
Loved this... very enlightening., and listened to it while gardening and running. Will seek out similar books as the US political scene unfolds
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- Mrs M
- 28-09-20
Troubling but very informative, lots of things make sense now
Excellent book, an alternative to the narrative of the mainstream media. What a poignant time to finish this book just as all the manoeuvring around the Supreme Court nomination is getting going, the inevitable battle over postal votes, developments in the Middle East and today’s news about Trump’s tax returns. The author explained it all before it happened.
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- Ant
- 15-07-20
Uncomfortable and Essential
This book proposes an extraordinarily bleak future. Breaking free from simply being irritated by Trump’s existence from the “safety” of another country to understanding the deep institutional and moral failures of the US is a challenging journey, but one I think is important.
If you are at all interested in the bewildering Trump phenomenon or have that feeling of impending doom for everything around us right now, this book digs deep into the foundations of the miserable rise of autocracy the world is currently suffering.
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- Jackie C
- 23-12-22
Good context
I liked the premise of the book, but in this case I didn’t like the author reading it. She was a little bit boring to my ears to be fair (sorry Sarah). The story/content of the book was good and probably a bit more interesting if read by someone else.
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