Books Quote by Jamelle Bouie

Vance has jettisoned old friends and old beliefs in a bid for power and influence. He will do and say whatever it takes to…

— Jamelle Bouie

When it became clear to Vance that Trump was the only game in town on his side of the aisle, he did not hesitate…

— Jamelle Bouie

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his…

— Theodor Adorno

“Okay, granted, there's a lot of willful blindness out there, more than enough to go around, and failures of imagination abound as well. One…

— Richard Russo

“The story of Trump was the story of how he tried to make himself a story. He was shameless, campy, and instructive: if you…

— Michael Wolff

“This memoir is one of the most brutally honest books I’ve ever read. You will grow to believe, and cheer on, this flawed hero…

— Joe Loya

If a novelist had concocted a villain like Trump - a larger-than-life, over-the-top avatar of narcissism, mendacity, ignorance, prejudice, boorishness, demagoguery, and tyrannical impulses,…

— Michiko Kakutani

“the stories that produced [Trump] were always contested. There were always other stories, ones that insisted that money is not what’s valuable, and that…

— Naomi Klein

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

— William Cowper

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to…

— Jonathan Chait

So in his very politically-incorrect way, I think [James Mattis] is a good counterpart to Donald Trump, who doesn't read books.

— Peter R. Mansoor