Riveting and richly textured ... Coldly devastating ... What the authors add is the vivid detail that makes these events feel actual. They wrest reality itself back from the distorted world of entertainment, illusion, fantasy and denial that Trump has generated around himself.
A vivid, rigorous, and unavoidably depressing chronicle of the first year of Trump’s second term in the White House ... Part of the high-wire act of such books is that the authors and their publishers work at unaccustomed speed to provide the end product with a history-as-it-is-happening varnish. The results are usually as perishable as week-old bananas ... Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre. Although some of the material is familiar from the Times and other sources and from Trump’s relentless self-exposure, the book is packed with news that will stay news.
For anyone who has spent Trump’s second term ranting about spineless Republicans and their lack of fealty to the country’s founding principles, Haberman and Swan offer a useful course in the iron laws of Republican self-preservation ... An entertaining account ... As Haberman and Swan show, Trump in his second term has built a government that, but for a few important exceptions (Susie Wiles, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought), is made up of incompetent toadies who are wholly responsive to his wishes.
