Adam Serwer has been chronicling our political landscape for the last decade. He is one of the most resonant voices of our time, relentless in his pursuit of fact, unsentimental in his storytelling, yet deeply humane in his perspective. At The Atlantic, he has written about the Supreme Court's role in Jim Crow; the history of the "white genocide" conspiracy theory; family separation; hoaxes; racism; inequality; and of course, Trump. In a marketplace crowded with books about the 45th president's antics, Serwer's collection gets behind the headlines to offer an examination of the country that made him president, and the deep roots of his rise. The essays include analyses of anti-Semitism and Israel, American authoritarianism, the need to abolish police unions, and the mythology of migration, expanding on Serwer's signature themes. With memorable phrasing and deep reporting across decades, this collection maps the social, economic, and ideological currents that built and enabled Trump's spectacle, and the devastating stakes of continuing in this direction.