WTFJHT Book Recommendations

by WTF Just Happened
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39 books
I’ve been keeping a list of books that have been recommended to me since I started WTF Just Happened Today that relate to this unique moment in history. While I haven’t read most of these, I did want to share the recommendations. I should also note that the books listed below are not an endorsement and most are linked with an Amazon affiliate code, from which WTFJHT makes a few pennies when you purchase via these links. Thanks for checking out the recommended book list!
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Disloyal: A Memoir

The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
Michael Cohen, 2020

Melania and Me

The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, 2020

Donald Trump V. the United States

Inside the Struggle to Stop a President
Michael S. Schmidt, 2020

Rage

Bob Woodward, 2020

Too Much and Never Enough

How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Mary L. Trump, 2020

The Room Where It Happened

A White House Memoir
John Bolton, 2020

Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World

H.R. McMaster, 2020

Fear

Trump in the White House
Bob Woodward, 2019

Team of Vipers

My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Cliff Sims, 2019

Devil's Bargain

Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Nationalist Uprising
Joshua Green, 2018

A Very Stable Genius

Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig, 2020

Siege

Trump Under Fire
Michael Wolff, 2019

Fire and Fury

Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff, 2018

Catch and Kill

Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow, 2019

Running Against the Devil

A Plot to Save America from Trump--And Democrats from Themselves
Rick Wilson, 2020

On Tyranny

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, 2017

A Warning

Anonymous, 2019

The Mueller Report

The Washington Post, 2019

What Happened

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2017

A Higher Loyalty

Truth, Lies, and Leadership
James Comey, 2018

The Threat

How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump
Andrew G. McCabe, 2019

Unhinged

An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
Omarosa Manigault Newman, 2018

The Hill to Die on

The Battle for Congress and the Future of Trump's America
Jake Sherman, Anna Palmer, 2020

Blowout

Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
Rachel Maddow, 2019

Unbelievable

My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History
Katy Tur, 2017

Doing Justice

A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law
Preet Bharara, 2019

The Obama White House and the Supreme Court

from The Oath
Jeffrey Toobin, 2016

Playing with Fire

The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
Lawrence O'Donnell, 2018

This Fight Is Our Fight

The Battle to Save America's Middle Class
Elizabeth Warren, 2017

Our Revolution

A Future to Believe In
Bernie Sanders, 2016

All the President's Men

Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, 2014

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015

The Big Short

Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis, 2010

Democracy in Chains

The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean, 2017

American Amnesia

How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper
Jacob S. Hacker, Paul Pierson, 2017

Collusion

Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and how Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
Luke Harding, 2017

Red Notice

A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
Bill Browder, 2015

Dark Money

The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Jane Mayer, 2017

Hope in the Dark

Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Rebecca Solnit, 2016