Inside the Trump nursery.

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  • Author(s): Reynolds, David (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    New Statesman. 5/1/2020, Vol. 149 Issue 5518, p46-49. 3p. 1 Color Photograph.
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    • Subject Terms:
      TRUMP, Donald, 1946-; POLITICAL science; PERSIAN Gulf War, 1991; PUBLIC opinion; AMERICANS; TELEPHONE calls; SYRIAN Civil War, 2011-
    • Abstract:
      The Critics: Books The Toddler-in-Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us About the Modern Presidency Daniel W Drezner University of Chicago Press, 282pp, £12 Many authors of books on politics and history, present company included, enjoy using epigraphs to help signpost the argument and add erudition, or at least the appearance of it. Drezner does not dispute the physiological evidence that the 45th US president "is a borderline-obese white male over the age of 70" but argues that "Trump's psychological make-up approximates to that of a toddler. The polarisation between Republicans and Democrats is at root a battle over national identity, with Barack Obama being literally the face of the US's future and Trump that of its past. [Extracted from the article]
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