The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

As new condition blue boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Roger Stone; Acknowledgments; Preface; Conclusion: Trump Wins; Appendix A; Appendix B and Endnotes. Illustrated with a section of color photographic plates. Signed and inscribed by the author, Roger Stone, with thick black Sharpie on the half title page. "Roger's a good guy. He is a patriot and believes in a strong nation, and a lot of the things that I believe in." -- President Donald J. Trump. "Stone has been a colorful and at times maligned figure in the Republican Party who relishes political combat and playing a role in causing or exposing unseemly scandals." -- Washington Post. "Stone is one of the best-know -- and best-dressed -- political insiders in New York." -- Breitbart dot com. "Watching Stone is like watching a well-dressed cobra at rest." -- Esquire. "Possibly The Most Dangerous Man In Politics." -- MSN dot com. "Trump without Stone is akin to George W. Bush without Karl Rove or Barack Obama without David Axelrod." -- National Review. "What makes Stone such a tour de force is his ability to impact the campaigns of both candidates." -- Redstate dot com. "Stone is one of the best sources in Washington for 'inside dirt' ". -- Slate dot com. "In the traditon of Theodore White's landmark books, the definitive look at how Donald J. Trump Shocked the world by winning the 2016 election. From Roger Stone, a New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, comes the first in-depth examination of how Trump's campaign tapped into the national mood to deliver a stunning victory that almost no one saw coming. In the early hours of November 9, 2016, one of the most contentious, polarizing, and vicous presidential races came to an abrupt and unexpected end when heavily favored predisential hopeful Hillary Clinton called Donald J. Trump to concede, shocking a nation that had, only hours before, givein little credence to his chances. Donald Trump pulled the greatest upset in American political history despite a torrent of invective and dismissal of the mainstream media. Here is the first definitive explanation about how the "silent majority" shifted the election to Donald Trump in reliable Democratic Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, thus handing him the presidency. Stone, a long-time Trump retainer and confidant, gives us the inside story of how Donald Trump almost single-handedly harnessed discontent among "Forgotten Americans" while running a guerrilla-style grassroots campaign to compete with the smooth-running and free-spending Clinton political machine. The Making of the President 2016 reveals how Trump brilliantly picked at Hillary Clinton's weaknesses, particularly her reputation as a crooked insider, and ignited the passions of out-of-work white men and women from the Rust Belt and beyond, at a time when millions of Americans desperately wanted change. Stone also reveals how and why the mainstream media got it wrong, including how the polls were loaded and who would vote. Stone's analysis is akin to Theodore H. White's seminal book The Making of the President 1960. It is both a sweeping analysis of the trends that elected Trump as well as the war stories of a hard-bitten political survivor who Donald Trump called "one tough cookie." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Roger Stone is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Man Who Killed Kennedy. He is a legendary American political consultant and strategist who played a key role in the election of Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump and was a senior campaign aide to Senator Bob Dole. Stone is credited with closing down the 2000 Florida recount, which made George W. Bush president.