by John Dixon
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This book is about Donald J. Trump, the billionaire who become the 47th president in 2025, after losing the 2020 presidential election following his term as the 45th president. He brings to his presidency, his flawed character—his arrogance, unpredictability, overhastiness, and changeability, his rejection of traditional principles of presidential governance, public policy, and diplomacy, and his willingness to lie, bullshit, and trust only his instincts, conspiracy theories, and sycophants. Its goal is to fathom Trump. This gives rise to four objectives:
• To shed light on his outlandish rhetoric and bizarre conduct throughout his business life and as president.
• To explain how he understands—goes about taking meaning from—the social reality he experiences.
• To gain insights, from his past business experience (1968–2016) and his first presidency (2016–2021), into his likely presidential thinking, rhetoric, and conduct, and his ethicality as the 47th president.
• To describe and explain his criminal, political, business, wealth, and health jeopardies, and his reelection as the 47th President.
To achieve these objectives required a very distinctive type of book. It draws upon reporting in the American and foreign media on Trump in business and in politics. It uses explanatory frameworks to explicate his character flaws, his worldview, and his way of thinking, taken from psychology, philosophy, social theory, political science, organizational theory, management, law, and economics.
John Dixon is an Australian-born Emeritus Professor of Public Management and Policy at the University of Plymouths (U.K.) Until his retirement in Malta, he was a fellow of the British Academy of the Social Sciences (nominated by the Social Policy Association) (2004–2017), and he remains an honorary life member of the American Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars (nominated by the American Political Science Association and the Public Policy Organization) (2006–).
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