| EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever Rick Wilson New York: Free Press, August 2018 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-9821-0312-5 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-9821-0312-4 | 326pp. | HC | $27.00 | |
| Page 10: | "I helped fill that chest freezer full of red meat to throw out to the Republican base..." |
| Word order: S/B "freezer chest". |
| Page 29: | "He earned his keep, however, scoring the ambassadorship to the Holy See for his wife, making her the first Vulcan American to hold the post." |
| I can't parse out how Rick Wilson means this. Is he referring to the god of the underworld (whom the Greeks called Hephaestus), the group referred to in The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet by James Mann — a group that includes Condoleeza Rice — or to people from the planet where Mr. Spock of Star Trek fame originated? |
| Page 32: | "Sure, Pence signed the most strict abortion law in the country, as well as the controversial and later reversed Religious Freedom Restoration Act, but on one was beating down his door to run for national office." |
| Typo: S/B "no one". |
| Page 55: | "The Scorpion always bites the Frog." |
| Word choice: S/B "stings" — according to the way I heard that legend. |
| Page 61: | "His obsession with money and the trappings of wealth don't exactly scream out that this is a guy who will pass through pass through the eye of a needle..." |
| Number error: S/B "doesn't". |
| Page 108: | "In his beer-hall style rallies, Trump talked about 'knocking the hell' out of people." |
| Missing hyphen: S/B "beer-hall-style". |
| Page 175: | "This kind of idea is considered errant silliness." |
| Word choice: S/B "arrant" although "errant" is not completely wrong. |
| Page 200: | "The waves of adulation and validation Fox & Friends provides is a mutually reinforcing dynamic that shapes Trump's entire day." |
| Number error / word choice: S/B "form". |
| Page 230: | "That's how politics still works, even for people who think they've reset all the rules and defied all the structures." |
| Word choice: S/B "strictures" — although this could be a typo: "i" and "u" are adjacent keys. |
| Page 281: | "In contrast, Saccone's messages was 'All Trump All the Time'." |
| Number error: S/B "message". |
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