6 Best biography memoir books like Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

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Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc…

"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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  • american history
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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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2. Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party

By: Jonathan Karl

4.28

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump re… read more

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  • biography
  • history
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  • presidents
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3. Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

By: Liz Cheney

4.60

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers be… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

By: Peter Baker

4.46

Format: 725 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "The most comprehensive and detailed account of the Trump presidency ye… read more

Similar categories in Peter Baker's The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 book and Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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  • biography
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  • politics
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  • nonfiction
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  • audiobook
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5. Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

By: Andy Borowitz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Andy Borowitz, “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning), brilliantly examines t… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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  • audiobook
"Imagine a hypothetical job applicant. He can't spell the simplest words, such as "heal" and "tap". Confused by geography, he thinks there's an African country called "Nambia". As for American history…"

-Andy Borowitz, Profiles in Ignorance: How America's Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber

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6. Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

By: Tim Miller

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former Republican political operative Tim Miller admits what no one else on the right ever will: th… read more

Similar categories in Tim Miller's Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell book and Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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" Why We Did It is a book about the people who submitted to every whim of a comically unfit and detestable man who crapped all over them and took over the party they had given their life to. It’s abou…"

-Tim Miller, Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

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7. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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8. Enough

By: Cassidy Hutchinson

4.31

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American h… read more

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  • biography
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Cover of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman

9. Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

By: Maggie Haberman

4.09

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidenc… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America book and Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • presidents
  • crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"Trump is to business what professional wrestling is to sports: part of it, certainly, but also a cartoonish parody of it."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

"[White House Chief of Staff and Four-Star General John] Kelly shared with [Mick} Mulvaney {who was appointed when Kelly resigned] his view that Trump was the most flawed person he had ever met."

-Maggie Haberman, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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10. And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

By: Jon Meacham

4.46

Format: 676 pages, Hardcover

The life and moral evolution of Abraham Lincoln, exploring why and how Lincoln confronted secession… read more

Similar categories in Jon Meacham's And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle book and Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Cover of Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission by Mark Leibovich

11. Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

By: Mark Leibovich

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times Bestseller "He's one of the best chroniclers of politics today." -Jake Tapp… read more

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Cover of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 by Jonathan   Lemire

12. The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020

By: Jonathan Lemire

4.10

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

From the White House Bureau Chief of Politico and the host of MSNBC's Way Too Early comes a probing… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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Cover of Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department by Geoffrey Berman

13. Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department

By: Geoffrey Berman

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

"Throughout my tenure as US attorney, Trump's Justice Department kept demanding that I use my offic… read more

Similar categories in Geoffrey Berman's Holding the Line: Inside the Nation's Preeminent US Attorney's Office and Its Battle with the Trump Justice Department book and Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

  • biography
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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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Cover of The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump by Bob Woodward

14. The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump

By: Bob Woodward

4.27

Format: 12 pages, Audiobook

 “I’m doing something here that I’ve never done before, presenting the lengthy, raw interviews of m… read more

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Cover of American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn

15. American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

By: David Corn

4.33

Format: 18 pages, Audiobook

#1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harro… read more

Similar categories in David Corn's American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy book and Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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"We can have an American president who does not govern with negativism and fear of the future."

-David Corn, American Psychosis: A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy

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16. The Destructionists: The Twenty-Five Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party

By: Dana Milbank

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A scalding history of twenty-five years of Republican attempts to hold… read more

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Cover of Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy by Brian Stelter

17. Network of Lies: The Epic Saga of Fox News, Donald Trump, and the Battle for American Democracy

By: Brian Stelter

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The  New York Times  bestselling author of  HOAX,  “[a] rare look inside the profoundly influential… read more

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Cover of The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House by Chris Whipple

18. The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House

By: Chris Whipple

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, insider’s look at… read more

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Cover of Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind by Robert Draper

19. Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind

By: Robert Draper

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2022 The disturbing eyewitness account of how a new … read more

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Cover of People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account by Mark Pomerantz

20. People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account

By: Mark Pomerantz

4.07

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

People vs. Donald Trump is a fascinating inside account of the attempt to prosecute former presiden… read more

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Cover of Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump by Rachael Bade

21. Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump

By: Rachael Bade

4.27

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold ac… read more

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