{"id":44009,"date":"2025-09-18T22:15:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=44009"},"modified":"2025-09-18T22:43:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:43:30","slug":"book-the-last-american-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/book-the-last-american-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Book:  &#8220;The Last American President&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images3.penguinrandomhouse.com\/cover\/9798890571847\" alt=\"The Last American President by Thom Hartmann\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/wp-content\/themes\/penguinrandomhouse\/images\/pdp\/magnifier.svg\" alt=\"\">&nbsp;Look Inside<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Last American President<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/authors\/2170821\/thom-hartmann\/\">Thom Hartmann<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Paperback<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Paperback$24.95Available on Sep 23, 2025 |&nbsp;240 PagesPreorder from:<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0F5LVHP8X?tag=randohouseinc7986-20\">Amazon<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/click-8373827-11819508?sid=PRHEFFDF5A7F1&amp;url=https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/?ean=9798890571847\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-8373827-10747236?SID=PRHEFFDF5A7F1--9798890571847&amp;url=https:\/\/www.booksamillion.com\/p\/9798890571847\">Books A Million<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/2186\/9798890571847?prhc=PRHEFFDF5A7F1\">Bookshop.org<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hudsonbooksellers.com\/book\/9798890571847?utm_source=prh&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_term=301&amp;utm_content=PRHEFFDF5A7F1--9798890571847&amp;utm_campaign=9798890571847\">Hudson Booksellers<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/-9798890571847?utm_source=randomhouse&amp;utm_campaign=randomhouse&amp;utm_content=PRHEFFDF5A7F1--9798890571847\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/goto.target.com\/c\/128773\/81938\/2092?subId1=PRHEFFDF5A7F1--9798890571847&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9798890571847\">Target<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/goto.walmart.com\/c\/128773\/565706\/9383?subId1=PRHEFFDF5A7F1&amp;veh=aff&amp;sourceid=imp_000011112222333344&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3D9798890571847\">Walmart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Book Description<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/wp-content\/themes\/penguinrandomhouse\/images\/chevron-up.svg\" alt=\"\"><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>From bestselling progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann comes an urgent autopsy of American democracy, showing how plutocrats, political cowardice, and systemic rot built the perfect runway for Trump\u2019s authoritarian ascent.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Last American President<\/em>&nbsp;rips open America\u2019s wounded democracy to expose a terrifying truth: Donald Trump isn\u2019t an anomaly\u2014he\u2019s the inevitable product of a system engineered to fail. This searing investigation reveals how a man forged by childhood trauma, pathological narcissism, and calculated cruelty didn\u2019t hijack democracy\u2014he was handed the keys by those who should have been its guardians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hartmann uncovers the unholy alliance between Trump\u2019s damaged psyche and America\u2019s rotted institutions. From Fred Trump\u2019s brutal parenting to Roy Cohn\u2019s lessons in shamelessness, from a Republican Party that traded principles for power to billionaire donors who treated democracy as a profit center, this book exposes the assembly line that manufactured an authoritarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this is about more than Trump\u2019s past\u2014it\u2019s about America\u2019s future. As climate catastrophe accelerates and fascism spreads globally, Hartmann reveals the nightmare scenario: a second Trump term that doesn\u2019t just end American democracy but also triggers irreversible planetary damage. Through meticulous research and unflinching analysis, he shows how political cowardice and corporate greed created the perfect storm that could extinguish humanity\u2019s last chance at survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t just political commentary\u2014it\u2019s a last-minute alarm sounding before the point of no return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(penguinrandomhouse.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Look Inside The Last American President A Broken Man, a Corrupt Party, and a World on the Brink By&nbsp;Thom Hartmann Paperback Book Description From bestselling progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann comes an urgent autopsy of American democracy, showing how plutocrats, political cowardice, and systemic rot built the perfect runway&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/book-the-last-american-president\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44009"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44011,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44009\/revisions\/44011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}