The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency
Brand: University of Chicago Press
Categories: Books, Biographies & Memoirs, Leaders & Notable People



Dimensions: 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0226714257
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0226646874
Print length: 272 pages
Publication date: March 25, 2020
subtitle: Paperback – Illustrated, March 25, 2020
author: Visit Amazon's Daniel W. Drezner Page search results Daniel W. Drezner
review: Editorial Reviews Review "It is almost surprising that, nearly a third of the way into 2020, more books haven’t been inspired by viral Twitter threads. Drezner’s brisk offering is a good place to start, built as it is out of a three-plus-year, 1,000-plus tweet project documenting examples of the president’s own aides and allies describing him, in the author’s words, 'like a toddler.' . . . . Though the book is occasionally funny—early on Drezner goes out of his way to point out he doesn’t mean to indict toddlers’ comportment—it is, appropriately, also overwhelmingly grim." ― New York Times “Drezner does not simply argue that Trump is ill-suited for the presidency; he contends that Trump is incapable of adult behavior. . . .We knew most of these things about Trump before Drezner published his book, but he presents a smothering avalanche of repeated presidential absurdity. The reader realizes that this pattern is not part of the Trump presidency; it is the whole thing." ― Washington Post "[A] crisp, witty and highly readable philippic." ― New Statesman "This book was written before the catastrophe of coronavirus and the Trump response. Its judgments about the president are all the more eerie as a result.” ― The Times (UK) About the Author Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a regular contributor to the Washington Post . He is the father of two former toddlers, both of whom were more mature than President Trump.