01/30/2017
In this up-to-the-minute work, Stone (How Not To Die) assembles a comprehensive guide for Americans who want to push back against the Trump agenda. With his collaborators (who include Carl Pritzkat, v-p of business development for Publishers Weekly’s parent company, PWxyz), Stone addresses 12 key issues, including civil rights, the economy, entitlement programs, health insurance, and immigration. Each is divided into several sections: a Wikipedia-style quick historical overview; what happened under the Obama administration; worst-case scenarios asking “What might Donald Trump do?”; and “What you can do,” with information on how to get involved, organizations to join and support, further reading, and the like. This book has everything novice activists need to get started, all in one place. Its historical primers are written with admirable immediacy, reflecting the importance of quick action or perhaps the quick turnaround time of the book’s creation. The “What you can do” sections, which could easily have been repetitive, are instead varied and each worthy of careful perusal. Americans concerned about their country’s fate under a Donald Trump presidency will find that this book is the ideal resource for meaningful civic engagement. (Jan.)
The Trump Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living Through What You Hoped Would Never Happen
Narrated by Danny Campbell
Gene StoneUnabridged — 4 hours, 31 minutes
The Trump Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living Through What You Hoped Would Never Happen
Narrated by Danny Campbell
Gene StoneUnabridged — 4 hours, 31 minutes
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Overview
National Bestseller
Don't despair. Don't retreat. Fight back.
A call-to-action for Democrats, moderate Republicans, and other anti-Trump dissenters, detailing the history of social and political policies, how Obama treated them, how Trump has the power to undermine them, and what people can do to fight back.
The stunning election of Donald J. Trump rocked an already divided America and left scores of citizens, including the nearly sixty-five million voters who supported Hillary Clinton, feeling bereft and powerless. Now, Gene Stone, author of The Bush Survival Bible, offers invaluable guidance and concrete solutions the resistance can use to make a difference in this serious call-to-arms-showing them how to move from anger and despair to activism against the Trump presidency and its potentially lasting effects on our democracy.
Before we can successfully engage, we need to be clear about the battles we face. Stone outlines political and social concepts-including such issues as Civil Rights, Women's Rights, the Environment, Obamacare, International relations, and LGBTQ Rights-providing a brief history of each, a refresher on Obama's policies over his eight years in office, and an analysis of how Trump's administration is threatening them. But lest we feel overwhelmed by the scale of the threat and settle for aimless outrage, Stone then provides an invaluable guide for fighting back-referring to organizations, people, sites, and countless other resources that are working tirelessly to restore the power of the people, safeguard our democracy, and ensure that none of us are left behind in our quest for relentless and equitable progress.
While marches and social media are important forms of protest, concrete actions that achieve real and measurable change are a vital part of the fight. Positive and reinforcing, The Trump Survival Guide presents the essential information we need to effectively make our voices heard and our power felt, during the Trump presidency and beyond.
Editorial Reviews
Anyone dreading Inauguration Day will appreciate The Trump Survival Guide. Stone lays out the key fights ahead - over women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, the environment, health care, and more - and offers actionable solutions to counteract your feelings of powerlessness. This book will help you make a bigger impact. — Bustle.com
A comprehensive resource guide for individuals worried that certain rights may be in jeopardy, offering the encouragement to actively fight back with as much knowledge and authority as possible. — Kirkus Reviews
The resulting book is crisp and pragmatic. — Salon.com
Though the book includes specific ways to attack every issue—joining your local school board to help with education, reporting hate crimes when you see them to help with civil rights—there are broader, universally applicable ways to fight Trump’s agenda. — Newsweek
The Trump Survival Guide is worth every dime of its price. It is chock full of reference material and addresses not easily found, including website addresses that only a Googlemeister could turn up. — New York Journal of Books
Everything novice activists need to get started, all in one place. The ‘What you can do’ sections, are varied and each worthy of careful perusal. Americans concerned about their country’s fate under a Donald Trump presidency will find that this book is the ideal resource for meaningful civic engagement. — Publishers Weekly
The Trump Survival Guide is worth every dime of its price. It is chock full of reference material and addresses not easily found, including website addresses that only a Googlemeister could turn up.
Anyone dreading Inauguration Day will appreciate The Trump Survival Guide. Stone lays out the key fights ahead - over women’s rights, LGBTQ+ rights, the environment, health care, and more - and offers actionable solutions to counteract your feelings of powerlessness. This book will help you make a bigger impact.
Though the book includes specific ways to attack every issue—joining your local school board to help with education, reporting hate crimes when you see them to help with civil rights—there are broader, universally applicable ways to fight Trump’s agenda.
The resulting book is crisp and pragmatic.
Though the book includes specific ways to attack every issue—joining your local school board to help with education, reporting hate crimes when you see them to help with civil rights—there are broader, universally applicable ways to fight Trump’s agenda.
2017-01-01
For the majority of the nation's citizens feeling shocked and bereaved by the election of Donald Trump, Stone (The Secrets of People who Never Get Sick, 2010, etc.) offers guidance for dealing with some of the key issues. With the media scrambling to comprehend Trump's stunning victory over Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8, 2016, and with much of the nation continuing to mourn the results, publishers are rushing out books about this unprecedented event. Stone, who wrote a similar book in 2004 regarding George W. Bush, here focuses his attention on the dozen most crucial issues that were contentiously debated during the long, grueling election process. In separate chapters, the author begins with concise overviews of the history and evolution of our nation's civil rights movement, economy, education, Medicare and Medicaid, the environment, immigration policies, LGBTQ issues, national security, Obamacare, political divisions, and women's rights. He then assesses whatever level of progress was made concerning each cause during the eight-year administration of Barack Obama. Acknowledging that Trump hasn't provided much in the way of concrete agendas within his campaign beyond bombastic and often contradictory rhetoric, Stone conjectures on possible worst-case scenarios, especially when considered within the context of Trump's divisive choices for key Cabinet posts. While the futures of any of these issues ultimately remain uncertain, the possible threats cannot be ignored, and the author offers reasonable means to combat each one. Though lacking concrete solutions, the book provides substantial resources, including lists of leading organizations to contact or for volunteer consideration and books worth reading on each subject. First and foremost, however, he advises readers to write or call elected representatives to voice their concerns.A comprehensive resource guide for individuals worried that certain rights may be in jeopardy, offering the encouragement to actively fight back with as much knowledge and authority as possible.
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940170094516 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Publication date: | 01/10/2017 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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