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Book SynopsisThe United States has never had a president quite like Donald J. Trump. He violated every rule of conventional presidential campaigns to win a race that almost no one, including at times he himself, thought he would win. In so doing, Trump set off cataclysmic shock waves across the country and world that have not subsided and are unlikely to as long as he remains in office. Critics of Trump abound, as do anonymously sourced speculations about his motives, yet the real man behind this unprecedented presidency remains largely unknown. In this innovative analysis, American presidency scholar and trained psychoanalyst Stanley Renshon reaches beyond partisan narrative to offer a serious and substantive examination of Trump’s real psychology and controversial presidency. He analyzes Trump as a preemptive president trying to become transformative by initiating a Politics of American Restoration. Rigorously grounded in both political science and psychology scholarship, The Real Psychology of the Trump Presidency offers a unique and thoughtful perspective on our controversial 45th president.
Table of ContentsSection I: Preliminaries - The Real Psychology of the Trump PresidencyChapter 1: Building a Theory of Donald Trump and his Presidency
Chapter 2: In the Eye of the Hurricane: Strategies for Analyzing the Trump Presidency
Section II: Donald Trump's Presidential Leadership and Governing StyleChapter 3: The Paradoxical Foundations of the Trump Presidency: Causes and Consequences
Chapter 4: Donald Trump's Fight Club Presidency
Chapter 5: Leadership Style, Presidential Success and Political Time
Section III: Psychiatry in the White House: Trump's Narcissism and "Fitness"Chapter 6: President Trump's Narcissism Reconsidered
Chapter 7: On President Trump's Psychological and Political Fitness for Office
Chapter 8: The Unexpected Trump
Section IV: The Trump Presidency in PracticeChapter 9: Prelude to a Unique Presidency: Preparation, Expectations and Judgement
Chapter 10: Essentials of Leadership: The Sources of Trump's Unique Presidency
Chapter 11: Conservative American Nationalism: The Trump Doctrine in Theory and Practice
Section V: Political Transformation in the BalanceChapter 12: The Future of the Trump Presidency
