num_pages: 320
description:  From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior comes the bitingly honest examination of the erosion of American liberty and the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump.The rise of Donald Trump may have shocked Americans but it should not have surprised them. His anti-democratic movement is the culmination of a decades-long breakdown of U.S. institutions. The same blindness to U.S. decline  particularly the loss of economic stability for the majority of the population and opportunity-hoarding by the few  is reflected in an unwillingness to accept that authoritarianism can indeed thrive in the so-called home of the free.As Americans struggle to reconcile the gulf between a flagrant aspiring autocrat and the democratic precepts they had been told were sacred and immutable the inherent fragility of American democracy has been revealed. Hiding in Plain Sight exposes this continual loss of freedom the rise of consolidated corruption and the secrets behind a burgeoning autocratic United States that have been hiding in plain sight for decades. In Kendziors signature and celebrated style she expertly outlines Trumps meteoric rise from the 1980s until today interlinking key moments of his life with the degradation of the American political system and the continual erosion of our civil liberties by foreign powers.Kendzior also offers a never-before-seen look at her personal life and her lifelong tendency to be in the wrong place at the wrong time  living in New York through 9/11 and in St. Louis during the Ferguson uprising and researching media and authoritarianism when Trump emerged using the same tactics as the post-Soviet dictatorships she had long studied.Hiding in Plain Sight is about confronting injustice  an often agonizing process but an honest and necessary one  as the only way that offers the possibility of ending it.
language: English
title: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
publisher: Flatiron Books