Guilty Men: They Made Trump

by Michael Carin

The task of this book is to perform an act of memory. On January 20, 2017, a man patently, demonstrably, staggeringly unfit to hold the office of president of the United States took control of the White House. The result? A profound scar of shame now disfigures modern American history. The book Guilty Men does not focus its indictment on that man, however, but rather upon the principal leaders of the Republican Party, and other men of influence, who facilitated his victory. The guilty men turned their backs on the character of their country. They betrayed American tradition and American values. They failed in their duty to stop a pathological liar and would-be authoritarian from reaching the highest office in the land. These men must be taken before the bar of justice, even if justice is delivered only by historians – or by books like Guilty Men. With any luck, the rage and recrimination within this book will serve as an enabling act of memory, and thereby help future generations of Americans avert similar national shame.

Kindle Edition

Published December 3, 2019

About the author

Michael Carin trained as a political theorist at McGill University, where he also studied under the godfather of Canadian literature, Hugh MacLennan. Mr. Carin served for many years as Editor-In-Chief of Montreal Business Magazine, and is the author of several novels including Five Hundred Keys, The Kremlin Papers and the work of alternate history Churchill At Munich. In his novel Edisson and Jeremiah (winner of the Guernica Prize), he conceives the story of history’s most controversial magic show, while laying bare the pathological duality of American culture.

Reviews

[Gary Fisher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe because he is a Canadian, but Michael Carin has accomplished an impressive feat: contributing new insights into the Trump disaster. As a student of WWII (see Churchill at Munich) he appreciates the similarities between Vichy collaborators in Nazi occupied France and Republican officials and their supporters during the sad Trump era.