{"id":11187,"date":"2018-05-15T18:41:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T01:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2018-05-15T18:41:16","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T01:41:16","slug":"why-trump-is-a-president-like-no-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-trump-is-a-president-like-no-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump Is A President Like No Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n

C<\/span>onrad Black\u2019s\u00a0erudite biography<\/a>\u00a0of Donald J. Trump is different from the usual\u00a0in mediis rebus\u00a0<\/i>accounts of first-year presidents. He avoids the Bob Woodward fly-on-the-wall unattributed anecdote, and \u201cthey say\u201d gossip mongering. Nor is the book a rush-to-publish product from former insiders of the Trump campaign or administration. Instead, Black, a prolific and insightful historian, adopts the annalistic method in carefully tracing Trump\u2019s earliest years in business through his various commercial misadventures, financial recoveries, and sometimes wild antics. Black\u2019s aim is to illustrate how much of what Trump has done since announcing his presidential candidacy in summer 2015 is hardly mysterious. Instead, Trump\u2019s methods are fully explicable by what he has always done in the past\u2014in the sometimes troubling, but more often reassuring, sense.<\/p>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Conrad Black\u2019s\u00a0erudite biography\u00a0of Donald J. Trump is different from the usual\u00a0in mediis rebus\u00a0accounts of first-year presidents. He avoids the Bob Woodward fly-on-the-wall unattributed anecdote, and \u201cthey say\u201d gossip mongering. Nor is the book a rush-to-publish product from former insiders of the Trump campaign or administration. 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