Abstract
WHEN DONALD TRUMP ANNOUNCED HIS CANdidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on the morning of June 16, 2015, there was little indication the event would alter American political history. Much of the book's opening material revolves around the first national figure to channel the base's anger: the former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who might have forestalled Trump's rise had she chosen to run for president in 2012. In one luridly fascinating section, Peters details how Trump defused the furor over the "Access Hollywood" tape by ambushing Hillary Clinton with her husband's accusers at the second presidential debate in St Louis.