Authoritarian Nightmare, John W. Dean
Authoritarian Nightmare, John W. Dean
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Authoritarian Nightmare
Trump and His Followers

Author: John W. Dean, Bob Altemeyer

Narrator: Rick Adamson

Unabridged: 11 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Kalorama

Published: 08/25/2020

Synopsis

How did America end up with a leader who acts so crudely and despotically, and counter to our democratic principles? Why do his followers stick with him, even when he acts against their interests?

To fully understand, John Dean, a man with a history of standing up to autocratic presidents, joins with Bob Altemeyer, a psychology professor with a unique area of expertise: authoritarianism.

Together, using psychological diagnostic tools, as well as exclusive research and analysis from the Monmouth University Polling Institute—one of America's most respected public opinion research foundations—the authors provide us with an eye-opening understanding of the Trump phenomenon . . . and what we may be able to do to stop it.

About John W. Dean

John W. Dean served as White House counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973. During the Watergate scandal, his Congressional testimony helped lead to Nixon's resignation. Dean has written about Watergate in his New York Times bestsellers Blind Ambition and The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It. Among his other books are the national bestsellers Worse Than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience. He is a regular political and legal commentator on CNN.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lynn on January 08, 2021

Excellent Look at Trump’s Base John Dean brought together social scientists to take a look at Trump’s base supporters. They found Republicans rate very highly on the Authoritarian scale for Right Wing Authoritarianism. It comes with high level of prejudice, evangelicalism and a more severe category f......more

Goodreads review by Beauregard on February 10, 2024

Trump is an adjudicated rapist who falsely claims he won the last election, climate change is a Chinese hoax, covid is just a flu, and that the FBI with the deep state and antifa enabled January 6; Trump and the MAGA gullible clearly have an unhealthy relationship with reality. If in doubt of the fa......more

Goodreads review by Cameron on September 24, 2024

Listened to on Audible and thoroughly enjoyed. The book was published in August 2020 and accurately predicted that if Trump lost the election, he would not give up power easily and even claim he won and that the election was rigged.......more

Goodreads review by Gary on September 06, 2020

Bob Altemeyer was for decades a leader among the social psychologists investigating authoritarianism. When he retired from teaching, he wrote and published a book, The Authoritarians, that summed what his and others' research showed. Recently, John Dean persuaded Dr. Altemeyer to collaborate with hi......more

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