A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America

The most comprehensive and detailed insider story about the mayhem, controversy, and devastation of Trump's first term, written by two Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post journalists.

Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig take us inside some of the most contentious moments of Trump's presidency by drawing on nearly three years of reporting, hundreds of hours of interviews, and more than two hundred sources, including some of the most senior members of the administration, friends, and first-hand witnesses who have never spoken before. They provide an unmatched collective portrait of an administration motivated by paranoia and self-preservation by peeping deeply into Trump's White House, looking at the staffers whose careers have been reduced to ashes, the lawyers rushing to clean up norm-breaking disasters, and the aides under pressure to lie to the public.

Rucker and Leonnig present Trump in his most blatant form, demonstrating his deranged judgment and ineptitude, which has astounded international leaders and officials alike. They include spontaneous phone conversations with Kim Jong-un, steak dinners with Vladimir Putin, and acrimonious phone discussions that left Theresa May's staff stunned. They also closely examine Robert Mueller, Trump's biggest opponent to date, and how his probe gradually brought down a government that was based on the universal principle of loyalty—not to the nation, but to the president.