| TRUMPOCRACY The Corruption of the American Republic David Frum New York: HarperCollins, January 2018 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-06-279673-8 | ||||
| ISBN 0-06-279673-9 | 300pp. | HC | $25.99 | |
| Page 9: | "These true-believing conservatives assumed that the party in which they had invested so much faith, energy, and money must have developed a plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, if and when the moment should arrive. So that moment did, or seemed to do, in November 2016: united Republican control of the federal government." |
| Grammar: S/B "did arrive, or seemed to". |
| Page 79: | "I close the editing of this book on the weekend that President Trump responded to a post-hurricane humanitarian catastrophe on the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico by plunging into hours of Twitter abuse of the mayor of San Juan for not being nice to him." |
| Verb tense: S/B "closed". |
| Page 205: | "Where technologies were invented and where styles were set, where diseases cured and innovations launched, where songs were composed and patents registered—there the GOP was weakest." |
| Missing word: S/B "where diseases were cured". |
| Page 218: | "That was also the teaching of America's greatest president too in the country's most searing agony of trial." |
| Extra word: S/B "president". |
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