Philip Rucker is the senior Washington correspondent at The
Washington Post and led its coverage of President Trump and his
administration as White House Bureau chief. He and a team of Post
reporters won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their
reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential
election. In 2021, the White House Correspondents’ Association
honored Rucker with the Aldo Beckman Award for overall excellence
in White House coverage. Rucker joined the Post in 2005 and
previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the
2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. He serves as an on-air
political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and graduated from Yale
University with a degree in history. He is also the co-author of I
Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final
Year.
Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The
Washington Post, where she has worked since 2000, covering Donald
Trump’s presidency and previous administrations. She won the 2015
Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security failures and
misconduct inside the Secret Service. She also was part of the Post
teams awarded Pulitzers in 2018, for reporting on Russia’s
interference in the 2016 presidential election, and in 2014, for
revealing the U.S. government’s secret, broad surveillance of
Americans. Leonnig is an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC,
author of Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, and
co-author of I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's
Catastrophic Final Year.
“[Rucker and Leonnig] are meticulous journalists, and this taut and
terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of
Donald J. Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date. . . . Their
newspaper’s ominous, love-it-or-hate-it motto is ‘Democracy Dies in
Darkness.’ A Very Stable Genius flicks the lights on from its first
pages.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times
“Richly sourced and highly readable…It is not just another Trump
tell-all or third-party confessional. It is unsettling, not
salacious.”—Lloyd Green, The Guardian
“Imagine, for a moment, a high-octane courtroom prosecutor summing
up for the jury a case built on the vivid testimony of multiple
eye-witnesses…. You could scarcely ask for more capable advocates.
Leonnig won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the U.S. Secret
Service in 2015, then joined Rucker and others on a team awarded
the Pulitzer for stories on Russian interference in the 2016
election. Their new, collaborative account…walks readers step
by step through the first 30 months or so of a presidency like no
other. They leave little doubt that they and many of their
sources regard that presidency as an unmitigated and deepening
disaster — a threat to American government as we have known
it. Whatever may happen to that impeachment effort in the
weeks and months ahead, it creates a moment of intermission in the
Trump saga and a chance to consider how the landscape has already
been altered by this president. A Very Stable
Genius offers a harrowing companion narrative to be read
during intermission.”—Ron Elving, NPR
"A Very Stable Genius is the most reliably detailed narrative yet
of just how chaotic and paranoid this White House is."—Air Mail
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