A Face in the Crowd

The book, written by an ordinary member of the public, ar-gues that, in spite of concerted efforts to derail his presiden-cy, Donald Trump, through his life experience, embodies many of the attributes of a great president. What is so remark-able is not that he was elected against all expectations but that his presidency has proved to be so successful. The me-dia has portrayed Trump in the most negative terms possible to a degree that would have destroyed a lesser man. The book demonstrates that this picture is almost entirely false. Trump is president at a historic moment when the nation is polarized between radical progressives striving for fundamen-tal change and conservatives who stand by traditional values. Trump is not an ideologue but a pragmatist resisting social experimentation with the potential to be one of the greatest presidents in the history of the republic.