| TRUMP MUST GO The Top 100 Reasons To Dump Trump [and One To Keep Him] Bill Press New York: Thomas Dunne Books, September 2018 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-250-30647-0 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-250-30647-7 | 373pp. | HC | $27.99 | |
| Page 11: | "Not only that. When they realized, or were caught not telling the truth..." |
| Missing words: I assume Press means "realized the truth". I rate this an example of clumsy phrasing. |
| Page 25: | "Weinstein's career demise was quickly followed by the fall from power of Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, Garrison Keillor, Charlie Rose, Kevin Spacey, Senator Al Franken, and countless other prominent figures in Hollywood, Wall Street, politics, and the media." |
| How may figures? I rate this as laziness. I don't think there were that many; he could omit the word "countless" without losing anything but hyperbole. |
| Page 73: | "Channeling Herman Melville, Obamacare is Trump's white whale." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "Trump, channeling Herman Melville, treats Obamacare as his. |
| Page 80: | "Then, in one of his craziest ideas yet, Trump decided he would make up for the cuts in fo0d stamp money by giving everybody a monthly 'America's Harvest Box,' consisting of '100 percent U.S.-grown and produced food.' In other words, instead of giving people the equivalent of cash so they can buy what they need, the government will tell them what to eat: whatever's in that week's box—mainly processed food in cans, tins, and jars." |
| Contradiction: Were these to be delivered monthly, or weekly? |
| Page 87: | "His negative comments about the media have had serious consequences on press freedoms worldwide and been condemned by the Committee to Protect Journalists..." |
| Missing word: S/B "have been condemned". |
| Page 119: | "44. HE LEAD THE BIRTHER MOVEMENT" |
| Verb tense in topic header: S/B "LED". |
| Page 129: | "(Echoes of Trump's tone-deaf and reprehensible response to the destruction of the Twin Towers on 9/11, when he bragged on local TV about the size of his building at 40 Wall Street: 'When they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, and now it's he tallest.' Not only was this a horrible thing to say, it still wasn't true—nearby 70 Pine Street was still taller)" |
| This doesn't make a sentence: S/B "This echoes". And by the way, the well-known Empire State Building, at 102 stories, also tops the 71 stories of this Trump property. |
| Page 119: | "For Californians, he might as well have proposed building a dam across Yosemite Valley or clear-cutting Redwood National Park." |
| There is no "Redwood National Park." Press probably means Sequoia-Kings Canyon. |
| Page 181: | "The New York Times has reported on several occasions where the Kushner Companies got big loans from U.S. financial institutions..." |
| Word choice: S/B "that". |
| Page 203: | "According to the air force, his first year in office saw more than three times as many bombs..." |
| Capitalization: S/B "Air Force". |
| Page 229: | "And this time, the White Horse's biggest leaker, Donald J. Trump doing something so much more nefarious than leaking to the press." |
| Typo: S/B "White House". Also, this is not a sentence. I'd insert "was" before "doing." |
| Page 255: | "But the very nature of the deals, and Cohen's relationship with Trump, raises very serious questions..." |
| Number error: S/B "raise". |
| Page 262: | "Libby, then chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, became the only person charged in the leaking of the identity of CIA agent Plame to columnist Robert Novak after her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had written a column critical of George Bush's arguments for launching a war against Iran." |
| This is one of the few errors of fact: S/B "Iraq". It is an understandable one, given today's tensions over Iran. |
| Page 270: | "And at the 2012 convention of the NRA, when Obama was campaigning for reelection, Nugent seemed to threaten America's first black president with assassination: 'If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.' " |
| Misleading: Nugent is actually charging President Obama with wanting to assassinate him. |
| Page 339: | Note 122 — URL "https://www-politico.com/magazine/stpry/2017/09/01/mick-mulvaney-omb-trump-budget-profile-feature-215546" |
| Typo: S/B "www.politico.com". I expect everyone who knows how to use this will instantly spot the typo and change the dash to a dot. |
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