<p><b>The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom The Weekly List.</b></p> <p>In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda, began compiling a list of actions taken by the Trump regime that pose a threat to our democratic norms. Under the headline: <b>Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you'll remember</b> Siskind's Weekly List began as a project she shared with friends, but it soon went viral and now has more than half a million viewers every week. </p> <p> Compiled in one volume for the first time, <i>The List </i>is a first draft history and a comprehensive accounting of Donald Trump's first year. Beginning with Trump's acceptance of white supremacists the week after the election and concluding a year to the day later, we watch as Trump and his regime chips away at the rights and protections of marginalized communities, of women, of us all, via Twitter storms, unchecked executive action, and shifting rules and standards. <i>The List</i> chronicles not only the scandals that made headlines but just as important, the myriad smaller but still consequential unprecedented acts that otherwise fall through cracks. It is this granular detail that makes <i>The List</i> such a powerful and important book.</p> <p> For everyone hoping to #resistTrump, <i>The List </i>is a must-have guide to what we as a country have lost in the wake of Trump's election. #Thisisnotnormal</p>
<p><i>Train to Nowhere</i> is a war memoir seen through the sardonic eyes of Anita Leslie, a funny and vivacious young woman who reports on her experiences with a dry humour, finding the absurd alongside the tragic.</p> <p>Daughter of a Baronet and first cousin once removed of Winston Churchill, she joined the Mechanized Transport Corps as a fully trained mechanic and ambulance driver during WWII, serving in Libya, Syria, Palestine, Italy, France, and Germany. Ahead of her time, Anita bemoans 'first-rate women subordinate to second-rate men,' and, as the English army forbade women from serving at the front, joined the Free French Forces in order to do what she felt was her duty.</p> <p>Writing letters in Hitler's recently vacated office and marching in the Victory parade contrast with observations of seeing friends murdered and a mother avenging her son by coldly shooting a prisoner of war. Unflinching and unsentimental, <i>Train to Nowhere</i> is a memoir of Anita's war, one that, long after it was written, remains poignant and relevant.</p> <p>With a new introduction by Penny Perrick.</p>