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The Enemy of the People

A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America

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The Enemy of the People

By: Jim Acosta
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From CNN’s veteran Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta, an explosive, first-hand account of the dangers he faces reporting on the current White House while fighting on the front lines in President Trump’s war on truth.

In Mr. Trump’s campaign against what he calls “Fake News”, CNN Chief White House Correspondent, Jim Acosta, is public enemy number one. From the moment Mr. Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, he has attacked the media, calling journalists “the enemy of the people”.

Acosta presents a damning examination of bureaucratic dysfunction, deception, and the unprecedented threat the rhetoric Mr. Trump is directing has on our democracy. When the leader of the free world incites hate and violence, Acosta doesn’t back down, and he urges his fellow citizens to do the same.

At Mr. Trump’s most hated network, CNN, Acosta offers a never-before-reported account of what it’s like to be the President’s most hated correspondent. Acosta goes head-to-head with the White House, even after Trump supporters have threatened his life with words as well as physical violence.

From the hazy denials and accusations meant to discredit the Mueller investigation, to the president’s scurrilous tweets, Jim Acosta is in the eye of the storm while reporting live to millions of people across the world. After spending hundreds of hours with the revolving door of White House personnel, Acosta paints portraits of the personalities of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer, Hope Hicks, Jared Kushner, and more. Acosta is tenacious and unyielding in his public battle to preserve the First Amendment and #RealNews.

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Very insightful, the lengths that this administration will go to, to disguise and manipulate the truth is incredible. Jim Acosta being in the thick of it, has a first hand account of the mess that The Whitehouse was in from the first day, gives a brilliant look behind the veil of lies and 'alternative facts' ....... unmissable.

Excellent.

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The narrator speaks very quickly, presumably because as a TV journalist he has to get his story to fit into a limited time, so I had to listen at 75% speed, but admittedly I’m not tuned into USA voices or media.
It’s not a sinecure, being a political journalist in the USA at present! I assume everyone except Trump’s fanatical followers knows that 45 is amoral, untruthful, unreliable, grandiose, semi-literate and a bully - just to mention his least repulsive characteristics! - but, nevertheless, it’s reassuring to know that not all USA citizens fall for his patter, and that a few courageous souls will not be intimidated.
From outside USA, it looks like there are weaknesses in their constitution, which have allowed an unscrupulous amateur president to grab more power than a democracy should allow.

An eyewitness account of Trump’s campaigns

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Frighting insight into the life of a Whitehouse journalist.

Jim Acosta gives a Frank and honest view of the Trump Administration and what ‘alternative facts’ truly are.

Keep up the good work Jim!

Outstanding

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Detailed and impressive retelling of the last 3 years of Trumps Presidency. An easy listen but one that captures the challenges of speaking the truth to a President who isn’t bound to that truth.

Excellent

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In this era of fake news., Jim Acosta reminds us that speaking truth to power may no longer be possible if those in power are not listening. This book is a chilling account of the dangers and dilemmas that journalists face when doing their job. It is also a warning to us all to seek out the truth, and call out those who try to distort it for their own ends.

Brilliant . A warning to us all

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Acosta has some useful perspectives on Trump's various stupidities, mendacities and malignant narcissism . He often misses the opportunity to lift his narrative from description to analysis : a great pity. For example, Acosta takes Spicer to the cleaners - details many slights, imagined and otherwise. He could have taken the opportunity to look at what Spicer's role entailed in terms of sanitising the filth Trump regularly spews. Acosta doesn't acknowledge that anyone would have a Develish job mediating Trump to the world beyond MAGA devotees.
Acosta should not have read his own text. It is delivered in a railway station announcer monotone. Through gritted teeth and locked jaw, half barked, half chanted, he does his own writing a great disservice. This book cost too much for what it delivers.

Why should a good author know how to read aloud?

Famous Author: narrator, not so much

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Excellent description and analysis of the current threat to the freedom of the press, free speech and the truth!

Jim Acosta, despite attempts as discrediting him, remains a highly respected and effective journalist.

His courage, bravery, ethics and moral purpose shine through this book. Thank you for writing such a poignant message for our times.

This book is a must!

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Just shows the power a president has and how it can be miss used. Give Trump hell Jim!!!💪🏼

The truth must prevail!

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Very good, brave & determined man fighting to tell the truth against the dangerous lies and fake information spread by Trump's self fulfilled interpretation of Bannon's ideology. Thank God for a free press, may they challenge governments everywhere for the betterment of citizen's. We live in dangerous times, nationalism to this extreme does not work for the masses as history has shown. Free and true press always!

Nam veritas, gratias agens Jim Acosta!

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American Journalists have been so courageous over the last few years. democracy has held firm because of them

a great reporter

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