Kim Miller
Blowback. A warning to save America from the next Trump
I saw an interview with Taylor recently and it prompted me to get this book.
Taylor was a Congressional Page at age 16, the kids who run papers back and forth between congress members. He completed post graduate study at Oxford and joined the Dept of Homeland Security as Chief of Staff when it was established after 9/11. He was still there when Trump came to power, something he resisted from the beginning.
The book tells of the 'Axis of Adults' who tried to keep the guardrails up around Trump for the following years. Through that time he'd written a revealing OpEd for the New York Times under the name Anonymous and after that a book called Warning, also as Anonymous. This book is the story of his time in the administration as one of the officials trying to contain Trump's erratic decisions and self-serving excesses, how he made the decision to leave, and the consequences of going public. It's a whole lot more scary than I had imagined.
I saw an interview with Taylor recently and it prompted me to get this book.
Taylor was a Congressional Page at age 16, the kids who run papers back and forth between congress members. He completed post graduate study at Oxford and joined the Dept of Homeland Security as Chief of Staff when it was established after 9/11. He was still there when Trump came to power, something he resisted from the beginning.
The book tells of the 'Axis of Adults' who tried to keep the guardrails up around Trump for the following years. Through that time he'd written a revealing OpEd for the New York Times under the name Anonymous and after that a book called Warning, also as Anonymous. This book is the story of his time in the administration as one of the officials trying to contain Trump's erratic decisions and self-serving excesses, how he made the decision to leave, and the consequences of going public. It's a whole lot more scary than I had imagined.