Reading & research

The Trump bookshelf.

The daily news records the confrontation; a book has room to explain how it began. Explore investigations, accounts from inside the administration, political arguments and satire. They offer different kinds of evidence and perspective, with links that let you follow the authors’ work beyond the cover.

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Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Haberman and Swan report on a second Trump White House with fewer internal restraints, greater reliance on personal loyalty and a far more aggressive use of presidential power.

Highlights & sources

The book is a starting point for several records across The 47 Files. The links below pair its central themes and reported episodes with independent coverage.

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Power with fewer restraints

The authors describe a president who returned to office more willing to test legal and institutional limits, surrounded by aides less inclined to restrain him.

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Natalie Harp and the presidential information stream

Reporting describes the “human printer” as an unusually constant aide who supplies favorable coverage, assists with social posts and can shape what reaches the president.

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Epstein-file turmoil inside the White House

The book reports a Situation Room crisis meeting and internal debate over how the administration should respond to the Epstein-files controversy.

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Venezuela, Greenland and presidential reach

Its foreign-policy reporting includes Trump’s Venezuela fixation and the wider second-term drive to project power abroad.

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The White House as a personal canvas

The reported decorating, paving and ballroom episodes add context to the site’s record of branding and vanity projects.

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

Power with fewer restraints

Natalie Harp and the presidential information stream

Epstein-file turmoil inside the White House

Venezuela, Greenland and presidential reach

The White House as a personal canvas

The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government

American Overthrow: Moscow’s Endgame in Its Long War with Washington

All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America

Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America

Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department

Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President

Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy

Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy

Murder the Truth: Fear, the First Amendment, and a Secret Campaign to Protect the Powerful

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House

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

Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump

Enough

People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account