02518cam a2200301 4500 329442703 TxAuBib 20170929120000.0 170531s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017304376 9780735225022 0735225028 TxAuBib Green, Joshua. Devil's bargain : Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the storming of the presidency / Joshua Green. New York, NY : Penguin Press, [2017] ©2017. xiii, 272 pages ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. The shocking elevation of Steve Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. Yet Bannon's hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump's unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldn't see. Trump's campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in America for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world. From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump -- the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history. Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump's penthouse on election night. 20170929. Bannon, Stephen K Influence. Bannon, Stephen K Political activity. Trump, Donald, 1946- Friends and associates. Presidents United States Election 2016. Campaign management United States. United States Politics and government 2009-2017.