{"product_id":"profiles-in-cowardice-9781918658132","title":"Profiles in Cowardice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The appeasement of Donald Trump is a sordid story. It is also, in Weisberg's hands, a gripping one.\" \u003cb\u003e- JILL LEPORE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor years now, people around the world have watched Donald Trump push the boundaries of presidential power and asked the same question: how has he been allowed to get away with it?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eProfiles in Cowardice\u003c\/i\u003e, Jacob Weisberg has written one of the first defining books of the Trump Era - how this pitch-black political moment happened, why so few resisted, and what it reveals about the character of American leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough profiles of eight individuals who form an entwined network of power in America - among them Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, the New York lawyer Brad Karp and Senator Mitch McConnell - Weisberg explores how authoritarianism can take root in an open society, not by overthrowing institutions, but by bending and bullying them into submission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharp, timely and deeply relevant far beyond America, \u003ci\u003eProfiles in Cowardice\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping portrait of power and moral compromise in the Trump era. This is not a story about monsters or masterminds, but about ordinary human instincts - fear, ambition, self-preservation - and the quiet compromises through which democracies can slowly begin to unravel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jacob Weisberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56456615395670,"sku":"9781918658132","price":23.45,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781918658132.jpg?v=1793697293","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.fi\/products\/profiles-in-cowardice-9781918658132","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}