Swamp Monsters: Trump vs. DeSantis—the Greatest Show on Earth (or at Least in Florida)

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&“Delivering juicy details with unrelenting speed and force&” (Jonathan Allen), Swamp Monsters is the wild inside story of how Donald Trump made a star of Ron DeSantis and then set out to destroy him—a struggle for supremacy that has turned Florida into the crucible of the new GOP and of America's future—by &“one of the keenest and best-sourced observers of Florida&’s political maelstrom&” (Rick Wilson). Ron DeSantis was struggling through Florida&’s political wilderness when, in late 2017, Donald Trump extended his hand. Ambitious but charmless, DeSantis was a relatively obscure figure even within his own state&’s Republican party, and an unlikely pick for the GOP&’s gubernatorial nomination. But when Trump took to Twitter and praised him as &“a brilliant young leader&” and &“a true FIGHTER,&” everything changed—for DeSantis, for Florida, and for the country. Today, as Florida governor and a GOP presidential frontrunner, DeSantis sits within striking distance of the Oval Office, and his onetime benefactor has turned into his most formidable opponent. Florida, meanwhile, has mutated from the country&’s biggest swing state into the stronghold of the extremist wing of the Republican party—a place where COVID denialism and culture-war antics have been battle-tested, and where the nation&’s political future might just be forged. In Swamp Monsters, veteran Florida journalist and NBC News senior national politics reporter Matt Dixon pulls back the curtain on the titanic clash between a one-time kingmaker and a would-be king, showing how the battle between Trump and DeSantis has escalated, how it might end—and what it will mean for the country.
Copyright:
2024

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ISBN-13:
9780316397339
Related ISBNs:
9780316397223
Publisher:
Little, Brown and Company
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Copyrighted By:
Matt Dixon
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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