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Michael Kruse Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer at Politico. Senior staff writer, @POLITICO, @POLITICOMag. Repped by @JavelinDC. At work on a @twelvebooks book. @DavidsonCollege alum. Love Lauren and the girls.

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Book Cover for: What It Takes: The Way to the White House, Richard Ben Cramer

What It Takes: The Way to the White House

Richard Ben Cramer
Michael KruseMichael Kruse

Richard Ben Cramer’s “What It Takes” was published 30 years ago today. https://t.co/p27zOVcsGW

Paperback, 1993

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

C. S. Lewis
Michael KruseMichael Kruse

“Once you have made the world an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing,” a senior devil advises a junior devil in C. S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters. https://t.co/H6hBryGIAv

Paperback, 2001

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell, Tim Miller

Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

Tim Miller
Michael KruseMichael Kruse

Tim Miller’s new book reveals the ways he and his fellow GOP operatives poisoned the national discourse and helped enable the rise of Donald Trump... What distinguishes this book is his willingness to put his own behavior under the microscope...

Hardcover, 2022

$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Letters to Trump, Donald J. Trump

Letters to Trump

Donald J. Trump
Michael KruseMichael Kruse

A woman named Stephanie Tatar wearing a hot-pink pantsuit told @elainejgodfrey she’s starting a business that allows people to fax her handwritten letters to Trump; she’ll deliver them personally to Mar-a-Lago, to avoid censorship by the postal service. https://t.co/WsYfnJGbOq

Hardcover, 2023

$99.00$74.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Jason Stanley

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley
Michael KruseMichael Kruse

“Trump engages in fascist rhetoric,” says Jason Stanley, a Yale professor who wrote the book “How Fascism Works.” https://t.co/KXiCbxrKGx

Paperback, 2020

$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon, Leonard S. Marcus

Mr. Lincoln Sits for His Portrait: The Story of a Photograph That Became an American Icon

Leonard S. Marcus
Michael KruseMichael Kruse

... he used “compromise and cunning and occasional cruelty,” as Adam Gopnik once put it, to achieve great things. https://t.co/iT1YE7UQOi

Hardcover, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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