A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist investigates the history of the U.S. intelligence and security agencies and their relationship to power as well as the emergence of another "deep state" of conservative activists who are guiding President Trump.
What The Reviewers Say
Fred Kaplan,
The New York Times Book Review
David Rohde...raises more questions than he answers.
Barbara Spindel,
The Christian Science Monitor
...compelling and timely.
Dina Temple-Raston,
The Washington Post
...a fascinating new book.
Kirkus
Throughout his immaculately researched work, Rohde inserts the career stories of 'good civil servants,' including many of the officials who testified in the impeachment hearings. As this revelatory book shows, the deep state, which now incorporates such nonelected loyalists as Rudy Giuliani, Sean Hannity, and Barr, has become the government itself. A vital investigation for this election year—and far beyond..