The Age of Regime Change - Inside Donald Trump's White House and the Growth of Imperial Power #984078

TRUMP DIDN'T BUILD THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY. He inherited it. From all of us.
The Age of Regime Change is the historical account that reframes everything you thought you knew about the Trump presidency. Jonathan R. Belmont traces the century-long construction of the most powerful executive office in the world — from Franklin Roosevelt's emergency expansions through the Cold War seizure of the war power, Nixon's imperial zenith, Reagan's rehabilitation, the post-9/11 explosion, and Obama's normalization — to the moment that Donald Trump walked through the door and discovered what a century of bipartisan expansion had actually built.

What was at stake was a century's worth of accumulated power, handed to a man who had no interest in the restraints that had always accompanied it.

This is not a book that treats the Trump presidency as a rupture. It treats it as a culmination — the inevitable destination of a journey that every president since FDR contributed to, that both parties advanced, and that the professional political class never fully reckoned with until it was too late. The imperial presidency was built brick by brick across a hundred years. Trump was simply the first president to use every brick.
From the Roosevelt emergency doctrine to the authorization-for-use-of-military-force blank check, from Nixon's unitary executive instinct to Cheney's war-on-terror architecture, from Obama's drone program to the normalized surveillance state — Belmont traces each expansion with the rigor of a scholar and the narrative drive of a master storyteller.

One hundred years. The most important political history of our time.
This is the book that explains not just what Trump did but why the system that produced him made it possible. For readers , The Age of Regime Change is the long view that the short-term accounts cannot provide.

The age that made Trump is not over. Scroll up and read the history that explains the present. The arc is long. This book shows you where it leads.