It was all a lie: how the republican party became donald trump, paperback/stuart stevens

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing, unflinching, and deeply personal exposé of how his party became what it is today A blistering tell-all history.

In his bare-knuckles account, Stevens confesses [that] the entire apparatus of his Republican Party is built on a pack of lies.

-- The New York Times Stuart Stevens spent decades electing Republicans at every level, from presidents to senators to local officials.

He knows the GOP as intimately as anyone in America, and in this new book he offers a devastating portrait of a party that has lost its moral and political compass.

This is not a book about how Donald J.

Trump hijacked the Republican Party and changed it into something else.

Stevens shows how Trump is in fact the natural outcome of five decades of hypocrisy and self-delusion, dating all the way back to the civil rights legislation of the early 1960s.

Stevens shows how racism has always lurked in the modern GOPs DNA, from Goldwaters opposition to desegregation to Ronald Reagans welfare queens and states rights rhetoric.

He gives an insiders account of the rank hypocrisy of the partys claims to embody family values, and shows how the partys vaunted commitment to fiscal responsibility has been a charade since the 1980s.

When a party stands for nothing, he argues, it is only natural that it will be taken over by the loudest and angriest voices in the room.

About author(s): STUART STEVENS is the author of seven previous books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , Esquire, and Outside, among other publications.

He has written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure , Commander in Chief , and K Street .

For twenty-five years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nations toughest political campaigns.

He attended Colorado College; Pembroke College, Oxford; Middlebury College; and UCLA film school.

He is a former fellow of the American Film Institute.