| IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK What the Trump Administration Is Doing To America David Cay Johnston New York: Simon & Schuster, January 2018 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-5011-7416-2 | ||||
| ISBN 1-5011-7416-9 | 306pp. | HC | $28.00 | |
| Page 12: | "Trump's victory also gave cause for a party in the Kremlin—and when word of this secret Kremlin victory party got out, the government-controlled television news ran video of one of two senior Russian officials being seized in meetings, bags thrown over their heads, their whereabouts unknown ever since." |
| Word choice: S/B "of one or two senior Russian officials". |
| Page 24: | "we do not believe that it presents the opportunity for 'corruption and foreign influence' that concerned the Framers and that we must presume it exists whenever a gift or emolument comes directly from a foreign government or one of its instrumentalities." |
| Extra word: S/B "presume exists". |
| Page 40: | "Just knowing who sat where, or who was absent, at functions often provides valuable insights into foreign affairs." |
| Word order: S/B "who sat where at functions, or who was absent,". |
| Page 72: | "Give that demand for skilled workers and the high pay, apprenticeships ought to be growing, not shrinking." |
| Typo: S/B "Given". |
| Page 87: | "Like his campaign talks, though, Trump was long on promises and short on substance." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "Trump's address". (Or change the first word to "As in".) |
| Page 107: | "That Trump doesn't know the economics of finance became clear in lawsuit testimony from a decade earlier. He said he did not understand accounting." |
| Production: This pair of sentences appears twice (although the second pair ends with a colon.) |
| Page 134: | "...against federal civil servants whose only 'crime' was to execute the lawful policy directors of their supervisors..." |
| Word choice: S/B "directives" or "directions". |
| Page 144: | "And it oversees a growing and complex system of wholesale electricity markets that operate in more than half the states..." |
| Number error: S/B "operates". |
| Page 154: | "Below-the-radar people are turning away from the U.S. in ways Trump does not see." |
| Punctuation: S/B "Below the radar,". |
| Page 157: | "Americans at the airbase in Qatar also controlled drones used for surveillance of suspected Al Qaeda, Taliban, and other terrorist leaders..." |
| Verb tense: S/B "control". (Also, "al Qaeda".) |
| Page 163: | "...to foster the impression of solidarity between the new American president and people of Poland." |
| Missing word: S/B "the people of Poland". |
| Page 167: | "Further, his attacks on Mexico for supposedly sending murders and rapists north created ill will not just in that country, but also in Chile and Peru, which were also part of the TPP." |
| Transcription error: S/B "murderers and rapists". |
| Page 178: | "...modern warfare is capital-intensive, requiring god-awful expensive ships and planes..." |
| Part of speech: S/B "god-awfully expensive". (Arguable.) |
| Page 107: | "Lockheed, which counts on the federal government for about 71 percent of its revenue—and a third of that government money is for the F-35." |
| Extra words: S/B "Lockheed counts". |
| Page 186: | "In posturing as the true champion of African-Americans, the Republican standard-bearer earlier that day in Charlotte, had compared himself to Abraham Lincoln." |
| Missing comma: S/B "standard-bearer, earlier that day in Charlotte,". |
| Page 189: | Instead of operating cash registers or washing dishes to support themselves in college, the work-study program provided many poor students with an introduction to the white-collar work environment..." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "to support themselves in college, many poor students were provided by the work-study program". |
| Page 229: | "...not long after he launched his campaign by calling Mexicans rapists and murders." |
| Transcription error: S/B "rapists and murderers". |
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