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Moot Testimonies: A Journal
A memoir in the form of a journal, Moot Testimonies brings together some fictional portraits of friends, ex-lovers, co-workers and family. The words they speak are not their own, however. They are my invention, my fiction, as I presume to speak on their behalf. Their testimonies are moot because they are problematic. In that sense, it's a presumed memoir. I have formed it as a journal, organized by theme rather than chronology. I’ve also inserted a letter or two, excerpts from famous writers and a disjointed chronology to keep you on your toes. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely intentional.
114 pages, Paperback
Published April 14, 2020
About the author
John F. Goodman
6 books7 followersHow do you make sense of the daily disasters pouring out of Trump & Co.? Start at the beginning.
Trumpworld Begins takes you back to 2016–2018—the years that primed everything that followed. Donald Trump's first term shattered the gentility of the Obama era and launched an era of backstabbing, ideological warfare, and a constant desperate scramble for the President's ear. The chaos unfolding today didn't appear out of nowhere. This is where it grew.
Drawing on his political blog from those pivotal years, author John F. Goodman captured the first-term culture as it happened—using satire and humor, monologues and dialogues, and sharp media analysis to document the disintegration of American political institutions in real time. These posts are the soil in which the present disorder took root.
Inside, you'll find:
• A cast of characters straight out of a lunatic asylum
• Feckless Democrats who helped enable the very fiascos they claimed to oppose
• A clear-eyed look at how Trump's brand of corruption actually operates
• How the guardrails were removed—and why so few saw it coming.
Trump has never changed character. His lunacy has only advanced. Trumpworld Begins records in vivid snapshots how we got from there to here—and why, if only we'd been paying closer attention, the signs were impossible to miss.
This is not typical political nonfiction or standard political commentary. It is a living document—part history, part provocation, part cultural autopsy—and a stark reminder of how it all began.
Trumpworld Begins takes you back to 2016–2018—the years that primed everything that followed. Donald Trump's first term shattered the gentility of the Obama era and launched an era of backstabbing, ideological warfare, and a constant desperate scramble for the President's ear. The chaos unfolding today didn't appear out of nowhere. This is where it grew.
Drawing on his political blog from those pivotal years, author John F. Goodman captured the first-term culture as it happened—using satire and humor, monologues and dialogues, and sharp media analysis to document the disintegration of American political institutions in real time. These posts are the soil in which the present disorder took root.
Inside, you'll find:
• A cast of characters straight out of a lunatic asylum
• Feckless Democrats who helped enable the very fiascos they claimed to oppose
• A clear-eyed look at how Trump's brand of corruption actually operates
• How the guardrails were removed—and why so few saw it coming.
Trump has never changed character. His lunacy has only advanced. Trumpworld Begins records in vivid snapshots how we got from there to here—and why, if only we'd been paying closer attention, the signs were impossible to miss.
This is not typical political nonfiction or standard political commentary. It is a living document—part history, part provocation, part cultural autopsy—and a stark reminder of how it all began.
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