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    "description": "<p><strong>The instant #1 <em>New York Times </em>bestseller.</strong><br />From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump&mdash;the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history. <br />Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump&rsquo;s penthouse on election night.<br />The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump&rsquo;s flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who&rsquo;d never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike.&nbsp; <br />Yet Bannon&rsquo;s hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump&rsquo;s unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldn&rsquo;t see. Trump&rsquo;s campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in America for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind,&nbsp;believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world.<br />Any study of Trump&rsquo;s rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. <em>Devil&rsquo;s Bargain</em> is a tour-de-force telling of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that decided the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon and his allies, who really did plot a vast, right-wing conspiracy to stop Clinton. To understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clinton&rsquo;s fall, you have to weave Trump&rsquo;s story together with Bannon&rsquo;s, or else it doesn't make sense.<strong><br /></strong></p>",
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