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★★★★☆ 4.18 • Goodreads

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  • Behind-The-Scenes Drama
  • Cynical Insights
  • Power Struggles
  • Human Ambition
  • Unsparing Honesty
  • Election Postmortem
  • Hypocrisy Exposed
  • Wry Commentary

Devoured Fight by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes for the unvarnished backstabbing and petty rivalries? American Carnage by Tim Alberta dissects the GOP with the same merciless insider access.

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Why It's Your Next Read

  • GOP chaos exposed w/ surgical precision
  • Evangelical hypocrisy meets raw power grabs
  • Interviews so candid they feel illicit
  • Schadenfreude for anyone watching Fox implode

You tore through Fight for the unvarnished backstabbing, the petty rivalries masquerading as ideology, and the confirmation that power brokers are just ambitious opportunists in expensive suits. Tim Alberta delivers the same merciless autopsy on the other side of the aisle, pulling back the curtain on the GOP's civil war with insider access that feels like contraband. This is gossipy, rigorous, and wryly cynical—the schadenfreude you crave wrapped in shoe-leather reporting.

Power brokers are just ambitious opportunists in expensive suits.

No sanitized narratives, no partisan pep rallies. Alberta humanizes political operators as the flawed, survival-obsessed creatures they are, giving you that same addictive blend of entertainment and unsparing truth that made Fight impossible to put down.

Power brokers are just ambitious opportunists in expensive suits.

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What Readers Are Saying

"American Carnage...restored my faith in Trump-era non-fiction. It is a comprehensive history of the Republican Party’s civil war...Alberta’s access is phenomenal and interviews with principals like Boehner, Trump, Cantor, and Ryan are sprinkled throughout the text." Ben Deutsch, Goodreads
"Wow. It’s hard to believe this book is real...Alberta meticulously documents this Republican Civil war and the rise of Trump...the untold stories, and first hand accounts from Republicans is sure to make you laugh, scratch your head, and leave you with a new appreciation..." Alex Mulligan, Goodreads
"This is an outstanding book... He is a first rate storyteller and he tells stories of importance... an emotional and powerful cry for us to recover the values that made us great." Robert P. Hoffman, Goodreads

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