ASF Book Club - Regime Change

We're meeting the 4th Sunday of each month. Important note for this meeting: The November meeting is at NOON (not the usual 2 PM). The event will be held in the reading room at Pocket Dimension Bookshoppe in Argenta. Snacks and coffee/drinks are available for delivery to the reading room from Caverns and Forests nextdoor. The November pick is Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Please RSVP so we will have a general idea of attendance size. If you would like to be included in the e-mail list to receive announcements and book polls, message the event organizer your e-mail address. Description from the publisher: From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump’s second presidency—a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him “no” are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone. Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan bring us behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution against the President’s…