Resistance, Jennifer Rubin
Resistance, Jennifer Rubin
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Resistance
How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump

Author: Jennifer Rubin

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 13 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 09/21/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In the tradition of Shattered and Game Change, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin provides an insider’s look at how women across the political spectrum carried a revolution to the ballot box and defeated Donald Trump, based on interviews with key figures such as Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Stacey Abrams, Nancy Pelosi, and many more. 
In a compelling narrative, bookended by Donald Trump’s 2016 victory and his 2020 defeat, Rubin delivers an absorbing analysis of the women’s counter-Trump revolution. Resistance tracks a set of dynamic women voters, activists and politicians who rose up when Donald Trump took the White House and fundamentally changed the political landscape. From the first Women’s March the day after Trump’s inauguration to the Blue Wave in the 2018 midterms to the flood of female presidential candidates in 2020 to the inauguration of Kamala Harris, women from across the ideological spectrum entered the political arena and became energized in a way America had not witnessed in decades. They marched, they organized, they donated vast sums of cash, they ran for office, they made new alliances. And they defeated Donald Trump.Democratic women candidates learned that they could win in large numbers, even in red districts. Black women voters in 2020 surged in Georgia and in suburbs in key swing states. Women across the country voted in greater numbers than in any previous election, flipped the Senate, and ensured victory for the first female Vice President in the nation’s history. While Democrats recorded impressive victories, Republican women delivered critical victories of their own.From the White House to Congress, from activists to protestors, from liberals to conservatives, Resistance delivers the first comprehensive portrait of women’s historic political surge provoked by the horror of President Trump. This is the indelible story of how American women transformed their own lives, vanquished Trump, secured unprecedented positions of power and redefined US politics decades to come.Resistance is essential reading for understanding the most important election in American history and the role women played in redesigning modern politics. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

About Jennifer Rubin

Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion for the Washington Post. She covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic, and provides insight into the conservative movement, the Republican and Democratic parties, and threats to Western democracies. Rubin, who is also an MSNBC contributor, came to the Post after three years with Commentary magazine. Prior to her career in journalism, Rubin practiced labor law for two decades, an experience that informs and enriches her work. She is a mother of two sons and lives with her husband in D.C.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Andrea

Ok. It is Like 4 months after I posted this original review and realized it was for the completely wrong book!! Oh my goodness how embarrassing. Anyway here is the correct one. I think what I have learned from reading this book is that clearly I am not as involved with politics as I could be. I knew......more

Goodreads review by Linda

Rubin overstates the role of white women in general and Republican white women in particular in defeating the orange menace. I'm also holding a grudge for the snide dig at Stacey Abrams in one passage, although she writes more favorably in other parts of the book. Not to mention that I think it's a......more

Goodreads review by Regan

Really a fabulous read. Rubin takes readers on a different, yet very necessary track by taking her readers through the history of women in politics culminating with the 2020 election and how (we) women caused many of the changes needed for so long. I can see Resistance being required reading in high......more

Goodreads review by Kim

The first book finished this year and it was certainly an enlightening and educating read. But equally as important, it was also engaging. Unlike many non-fiction books that I read because I think the subject matter is important, I really enjoyed reading this one. Rubin's style isn't at all lofty or......more