Insurgency: How Republicans Lost Their Party and Got Everything They Ever Wanted

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • How did the party of Lincoln become the party of Trump? From an acclaimed political reporter for The New York Times comes the definitive story of the mutiny that shattered American politics.“A bracing account of how the party of Lincoln and Reagan was hijacked by gadflies and grifters who reshaped their movement into becoming an anti- democratic cancer that attacked the U.S.

Capitol.”—Joe ScarboroughAn epic narrative chronicling the fracturing of the Republican Party, Jeremy Peters’ s Insurgency is the story of a party establishment that believed it could control the dark energy it helped foment—right up until it suddenly couldn’t.