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Paying Attention Book Club

August 25, 2021

Book recommendations are nothing new here at Paying Attention. Usually they are books we have published, including such favorites as Good Night Goon, Donald and the Very, Very Large Uh-Brain, Orange Dregs and Scam, and the like. Today we want to alert you to the work of real authors whose books contain more words than pictures. We’re confident that one or both of these fine volumes will end up prominently displayed in your library, on your coffee table, or conspicuously flaunted wherever you invite others into your recently deep-cleaned environs, if not in fact read from cover to cover.

In an unprecedented publishing event, on the one-month anniversary of the release of their second best-seller about the twice-impeached, double-ex (thanks to his recent non-reinstatement) president, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker are releasing a sequel/correction, I Alone Can Fuck It Up: Donald J. Turmp’s Catastrophic Four Years.

This is the double album of the printed word: think Really White Album

According to one reviewer: Yes, his final year was a catastrophe, but it took years of “work” to arrange the conditions – mentally, socially and politically – for Donald Turmp’s beyond catastrophic final year of his disgraceful, crime-riddled, twice-impeached, and ultimately deadly single term. Leonnig and Rucker’s follow-up to I Alone Can Fix It paints a much more complete picture of a psychopathic autocrat who could never have done anything different when faced with a deadly pandemic that required a cool head, flexible thinking and empathy – all qualities completely beyond Trump’s horrifyingly miniscule repertoire. As painful as it might be to dredge up the worst presidency in American history, this is and will be an important documenting of the surreal Turmp administration. The racism, the Russian collusion, two fucking serious, legitimate impeachments, the inevitable attempted coup (if it didn’t happen now, it would have happened at the end of his (unthinkable) second term, and of course, the tsunami of grisly details of the perpetual psychosis and staggering stupidity underlying all of it. If you don’t read any books this year, read this one. Don’t wait for the movie to come out.

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