How Trump Thinks: His Tweets and the Birth of a New Political Language

by Peter Oborne

Book Overview

The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter. Like other social media, this form of communication has often been assumed to encourage the dissemination of liberal values and the circulation of facts. Trump's tweets, by contrast, formed a constant stream of provocations, insults, conspiracy theories, 'alternative facts' and outright lies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786696657
• ISBN13: 9781786696656
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"