The Last American President: A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink
Sep 2025 · Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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Trump didn't break American democracy—he revealed how broken it already was.
In this urgent, deeply researched book, four-time Project Censored Award–winning, New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann argues that Trump is a symptom, not the disease. The real story is the ecosystem that built him: a childhood defined by cruelty, a mentor who weaponized shamelessness, a political party that sold its principles for power, and a donor class that used him to dismantle the guardrails on their own greed.
Inside, you'll find
This is not a book about despair. It is a book about recognition—and resistance.
For readers of How Democracies Die and On Tyranny who are ready to move from understanding the crisis to doing something about it.
The choice, as always, is ours.
In this urgent, deeply researched book, four-time Project Censored Award–winning, New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann argues that Trump is a symptom, not the disease. The real story is the ecosystem that built him: a childhood defined by cruelty, a mentor who weaponized shamelessness, a political party that sold its principles for power, and a donor class that used him to dismantle the guardrails on their own greed.
Inside, you'll find
- a psychological portrait of how Trump was made—not born;
- a clear-eyed account of how the Republican Party and billionaire networks enabled his rise;
- global comparisons to Hungary, Venezuela, and Weimar Germany—because this pattern has a name; and
- 7 proven, history-backed strategies for defeating authoritarianism before it becomes permanent.
This is not a book about despair. It is a book about recognition—and resistance.
For readers of How Democracies Die and On Tyranny who are ready to move from understanding the crisis to doing something about it.
The choice, as always, is ours.
Trump didn't break American democracy—he revealed how broken it already was.
In this urgent, deeply researched book, four-time Project Censored Award–winning, New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann argues that Trump is a symptom, not the disease. The real story is the ecosystem that bui...
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January 1, 2026
This book is written by someone with severe TDS denying and making outrageous claims especially when it's clear there was cheating in the election 2020 where senile Joe Biden was inserted with 81 million votes miraculously 🤥. Trump is probably a pedophile yes and a bad person but unfortunately one could not vote for a Democrat party that believes in castrating Little boys and calling them girls LGBT 🌈 feminist extremists Demasculating society DEI and open borders and the Karl Marx communist manifesto. We had no choice. Trump is a crook but he closed the border. unfortunately the Dems where that bad.
About the author
Thom Hartmann is a four‐time winner of the Project Censored Award, a New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books, and America’s #1 progressive talk radio show host for more than a decade. His show is carried on SiriusXM and radio stations nationwide and simulcast as television on Free Speech TV.
Thom Hartmann is a four‐time winner of the Project Censored Award, a New York Times bestselling author of over thirty books, and America’s #1 progressive talk radio show host for more than a decade. His show is carried on SiriusXM and radio stations nationwide and simulcast as television on Free ...
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