Gaslighting America, Amanda Carpenter
Gaslighting America, Amanda Carpenter
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Gaslighting America
Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us

Author: Amanda Carpenter

Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Unabridged: 7 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/01/2018


Synopsis

"Can you believe what Donald Trump said?"

In Gaslighting America, Amanda Carpenter breaks down Trump's formula, showing why it's practically foolproof, playing his victims, the media, the Democrats, and the Republican fence-sitters perfectly. She traces how this tactic started with Nixon, gained traction with Bill Clinton, and exploded under Trump.

Where some people see lies, Trump's fierce followers see something different. A commitment to winning at all costs; there is nothing he could say that would erode their support at long as it's in the name of taking down his political enemies.

His opponents on the left and right continue to act as if his fake narratives and conspiracy theories will bring him down, when in fact, they are the ruses that raised him up.

As a conservative former staffer to a competing presidential campaign, Amanda Carpenter witnessed her fellow Republicans fall in line behind Trump. As a political commentator, she was publicly smeared by one of his supporters on live television without a shred of evidence supporting the allegations. Slowly, she watched her entire party succumb to Trump and become defenders of his tactics, and Gaslighting America may be the only hope to bring them back to reality.

About Amanda Carpenter

Amanda Carpenter is a CNN political commentator, writer, and former senior staffer to Senators Jim DeMint and Ted Cruz. She has written for the Washington Post, Townhall.com, Politico, the Washington Times, Refinery29, Cosmo.com, and Human Events.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on May 20, 2018

Finally, someone who can explain to me in terms that I can understand exactly what Trump is doing! While I do not agree with all, or even many of Carpenter's political positions, what she describes in this book is spot on! I am now watching everything Trump says and does with a new understanding. Sh......more

Goodreads review by Mary on May 15, 2018

For anyone who’s ever experienced “gaslighting”, I suspect it may be hard to read this book if you’re not a Trump supporter. Before I go on, I want to explain that I am from the Washington DC area, grew up in the 60s and 70s there. I was born into a family who simply didn’t discuss religion or polit......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 27, 2018

Amanda Carpenter is a conservative political pundit on CNN who has worked as a speechwriter for Ted Cruz. I knew going in that the author's political beliefs and mine overlap about 10 percent, and I'd struggle to identify exactly what the 10 percent consists of. But her deep-dive into the president's......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on July 08, 2018

If you can get past Carpenter's self-aggrandizing commentary and her staunch right-wing narrative and actually get to where she discusses Trump's gaslighting, it's quite interesting. Almost didn't make it that far into the book though because it's hard to stomach her contorted perspective and arroga......more

Goodreads review by Plusilikefrogs on May 20, 2018

Relatively good, an interesting perspective from someone involved so heavily in Republican politics and campaigns. It did feel a bit much for the author to take Republicans to task for falling in line behind him without mentioning her old boss lining up as well, especially after she detailed the att......more