Hiding in Plain Sight, Sarah Kendzior
Hiding in Plain Sight, Sarah Kendzior
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Hiding in Plain Sight
The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America

Author: Sarah Kendzior

Narrator: Sarah Kendzior

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

New York Times bestselling 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

About Sarah Kendzior

Sarah Kendzior is the bestselling author of The View from Flyover Country, Hiding in Plain Sight, and They Knew. She lives with her husband and children in St. Louis, Missouri.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Steve on April 05, 2020

Coming, this week! .... Read it, share it .... Buy copies (from your local independent bookstore, of course) and give them as gifts.... But, seriously, read it. It's an eye-opener. Here's a taste: [URL not allowed] Also: [URL not allowed]-re... . . . Mid M......more

Goodreads review by Jen from Quebec :0) on November 06, 2020

WOW.....This is NOT simply "a book about Trump". While, yes, it does document his rise from the 1980's to present day, it is actually a tome about the entire SYSTEM in America, about capitalism, about privilege. This book delves into so many other important subjects that I think it should have an en......more

Goodreads review by Scott on April 18, 2025

4/18/2025 addendum: I wrote this back in 2021 when there was still an iota of hope. My views haven't changed. Indeed, I think I've pretty much doubled down on them: We're SO fucked... If you’ve had the sense—especially within the last four years but even long before November 8, 2016—-that something i......more

Goodreads review by Tom on January 23, 2021

I was very disappointed with this book. While the author has a valuable perspective as an expert on authoritarian states, and accurately predicted Trump’s election and subsequent governing as an autocrat (she says kleptocrat), she seems to believe that her predictive abilities are infallible. She al......more

Goodreads review by Letitia on August 16, 2020

Well this was a journey. It was a highly informative and entertaining one, but with some flaws. What I am grateful for and what I successfully found while reading this book was a thorough indictment of pretty much all Trump's associations, behaviors, and business dealings. I think a lot of people ass......more