{"id":228958,"date":"2022-04-03T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-presidency-of-donald-trump-review-the-first-draft-of-history"},"modified":"2022-04-03T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T06:00:12","slug":"the-presidency-of-donald-trump-review-the-first-draft-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-presidency-of-donald-trump-review-the-first-draft-of-history","title":{"rendered":"The Presidency of Donald Trump review: the first draft of history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After thousands of articles and scores of books about Donald Trump&#8217;s mostly catastrophic presidency , it&#8217;s difficult for anyone to break dramatic new ground. But this new volume, with contributions from 18 American academics, is broader and deeper than all its predecessors, with essays covering everything from Militant Whiteness to the legacy of Trump&#8217;s Middle East policies, under the title Arms, Autocrats and Annexations. The result is a great deal of information that is familiar to those who have already plowed through dozens of volumes, enlivened by a few new facts and a number of original insights. One of the best essays, about the Republican party Trump inherited, is written by the book&#8217;s editor, Julian Zelizer. The Princeton historian reminds us that the &#8220;smashmouth partisanship&#8221; perfected by Trump actually began when Newt Gingrich snared the House speakership nearly 30 years ago. In 1992, Pat Buchanan&#8217;s speech to the Republic convention featured all of the gay-bashing that Florida&#8217;s governor, Ron DeSantis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian Zelizer of Princeton has assembled a cast of historians to consider every aspect of four years that shook America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,19,42,41,43],"class_list":["post-228958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-books-literature","tag-entertainment","tag-politics","tag-potus","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}