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Tired of Winning

Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

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Tired of Winning

By: Jonathan Karl
Narrated by: Jonathan Karl
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 THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

One of 62 Books 'The Ezra Klein Show' Guests Recommended This Year, The New York Times

Featured in Vanity Fair’s Books to Read in November

One of the Associated Press' Most Anticipated Books of the Fall

"The most important thing that has been written to date about what is in front of the American people in the next presidential election." —Nicolle Wallace
An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image—and the wreckage he’s left in his wake.

Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump’s improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party.

From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump has become more extreme, vengeful, and divorced from reality than he was on January 6, 2021. His meddling damaged the GOP’s electoral prospects and his legal troubles were mounting. Yet he re-emerged as the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and the president-elect.

Jonathan Karl has known Donald Trump since his days as a New York Post reporter in the 1990s, and he covered every day of Trump’s administration as ABC News’s chief White House correspondent. No one is in a better position to detail the former president’s quest for retribution and provide a glimpse at what the GOP signed up for by once again choosing him as its standard bearer.

In 1964, Ronald Reagan told Americans it was “a time for choosing.” Sixty years later, Republicans have their own choice to make: Are they tired of winning? Corruption & Misconduct Political Science Politics & Government United States World Law

Critic reviews

"Tired of Winning… is the most important thing that has been written to date about what is in front of the American people in the next presidential election."—Nicolle Wallace

"Tired of Winning should be required reading before voting in 2024."—Bill Press, The Hill

"Tired of Winning is worth reading. It is well-paced, meticulously sourced and amply footnoted. Karl’s third installment on the Trump presidency and aftermath shines a needed light on how the Republican party has been recast and reshaped."—The Guardian

 "Excellent reporting and assured writing—an ominous warning."—Kirkus (STARRED REVIEW)

"A read-in-one-sitting narrative every bit as riveting as the most adrenalin-fueled political thriller. But, sadly, it’s not fiction; it's very real and, Karl warns, things are set to get a lot realer."—Booklist

"Tired of Winning is the definitive account, by one of our most insightful reporters, of Donald Trump’s strange obsessions and behaviors as he struggles to avoid what he considers to be the worst possible fate: being a loser." —Walter Isaacson, New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, and Leonardo da Vinci

"Karl has a reporter’s eye and ear for the truth—all carefully rendered here."—Bob Woodward

"A terrific psychological window into Donald Trump in exile after January 6, after leaving office, when he'd become a pariah and was toxic and nobody in the party really wanted anything to do with him. And Jonathan, really, in a compelling way, chronicles Trump in those months between leaving office and before he actually begins to regain some of his old political power and moves toward another run in 2024. . . . Jonathan's book is the best thing I've read on that period." —Tim Alberta, The Ezra Klein Show
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The thin skinned, bottle blonde pumpkin has the truth laid out in a concise and well researched book that shows him to be a clear and present danger to US democracy.

Trump is toxic.

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I won’t say I ‘enjoyed’ this book because how can anyone enjoy watching the slow destruction of American democracy. What Trump has shown is that even in a democracy there are enough sycophants willing to do whatever is required to secure their own small corner of power!

I hope and pray democracy triumphs in the end and that all the enablers are rounded up and removed from politics, they have no business being there.

The world does not need another tinpot dictator!

A frightening insight into Trump’s madness

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I am British, an old loony lefty, and I am watching America’s battle against fascism with hope that the pro democratic movement wins. The book follows Trump’s political career and the very real threat he is to the democratic experiment that is the USA which is written in a way that engages the reader. I say that the conclusion has the greatest effect on me because he writes about the history of the capitol. The desk in the senate with the names of previous politicians. The pride in that history. This made me think of the Houses of Parliament. Even though I am against an unelected House of Lords and The Commons at the moment is not a democratic institution, it gave me hope for the future and pride in the past of the many politicians who have fought for the British people.

The conclusion

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In such a crowded field, Mr Karl’s book stands out for its clarity, new information and excellent narration.

Outstanding Stand Out

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Again the author gave a good account of the unhinged nature of Trump. A lot of the details have been mentioned in other writings,

Another decent recount of the madness

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