Donald Trump

Charlie Laderman is Senior Lecturer in International History at King's College London and a Harrington Faculty Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security, University of Texas, Austin. He is the author of Sharing the Burden: Armenia, Humanitarian Intervention (2019) and co-author of Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War (2021) with Brendan Simms.Brendan Simms is Professor of the History of International Relations at the University of Cambridge. An expert on European geopolitics, past and present, he is a frequent contributor to print and broadsheet media, has advised governments and parliaments, and spoken at Westminster, in the European parliament and at think-tanks in the United Kingdom, the United States and in many Eurozone countries. He is the author of Donald Trump: The Making of a Worldview (2017), Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (2001) (shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize), Europe: The Struggle for Supremacy, 1453 to the Present (2013) and Hitler: A Global Biography (2019).

‘The most comprehensive account yet of Trump’s thinking over the years.’

• PrefaceAcknowledgements Introduction – Playing the FoolChapter 1 - Imperial Overstretch: The Intellectual Roots of Trumpism AbroadChapter 2 - Novice: Wealth and the Nation: 1980-2000Chapter 3 - Apprentice: Protecting the Nation, 2001-14Chapter 4 - Candidate and President, 2015-17Epilogue - President Trump vs the World: The First 100 DaysNotesBibliographyIndex