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Customers find the book well-written and informative, with one review noting it’s chalked full of content and facts. Moreover, they appreciate its focus on equality, with one customer highlighting how it lays out a compelling case for fairness. Additionally, the book receives positive feedback for its integrity, with one customer describing it as exemplary. However, some customers find the depth of the book negative, describing it as shallow.
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In Get Trump: The Threat to Civil Liberties, Due Process, and Our Constitutional Rule of Law, Alan Dershowitz—#1 New York Times bestselling author and one of America’s most respected legal scholars—analyses the unremitting efforts by political opponents of Donald Trump to “get” him—to stop him from running in 2024—at any cost.
Alan Dershowitz has been called “one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America” by Politico and “the nation’s most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights” by Newsweek.
Get Trump makes clear that unconstitutional efforts to stop Trump from retaking the presidency challenge the very foundations of our liberty: due process, right to counsel, and free speech. Those who justify these dangerous departures from the rule of law argue that the threat posed by a second Trump presidency is “different” and “immediate,” while the departures from constitutional norms are longer term and more abstract.
Dershowitz explains that defenders of Trump’s constitutional rights—even those like him who oppose Trump politically—are sought to be silenced; their free speech rights attacked, their integrity questioned, and their careers threatened. Much of the media substitutes advocacy against Trump for objective reporting, while many in academia petition and propagandize against rights they previously valued—all in the interest of getting Trump.
The essence of justice is that it must be equally applicable to all, Dershowitz notes. No one is above the law but digging to find crimes in order to influence an election does not constitute the equal application of the law. In order to assure equal application in comparable situations, he proposes two criteria for indicting a likely candidate of the opposing party: the Richard Nixon standard and the Hillary Clinton standard—and most recently, the Joe Biden standard.
Get Trump warns that regardless of whether this anti-democratic effort to stop Trump from running succeeds or fails, it is likely to create dangerous precedents that will lie around like loaded weapons ready to be deployed against other controversial candidates, officials, or citizens about whom it can be argued that the danger they pose “is different.”
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: JazzBassMan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Get Trump
Review: As a constitutional scholar, Mr. Alan Dershowitz is the ideal person to write this profoundly objective critique of the American political system. He calls out both political parties. He critiques their flaws and highlights the dangers and shortcomings of political partisanship. This is truly a magnificent book that should be read by everyone seeking an understanding of the flaws and shortcomings of the American political system.
Reviewer: GoodLife
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A great book
Review: Every American must read this book. As a refugee from a communist totalitarian country, I see my fellow American brothers and sisters taking liberty for granted. I highly recommend this book; the author explains the foundational legal principles that have been protecting Americans’ freedom and rights and why our legal system are in danger, in an easy-to-understand way. I don’t want to relive communism. This not about our generation only, it’s about our future generations to come.
Reviewer: Dan N
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Perspective
Review: Explains how our Constitution has been trampled on in a deranged attempt to get Trump at all cost.
Reviewer: Classical Recording Collector
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pretty Much a Rehash of Fox News Commentary
Review: The author is a retired professor at Harvard Law School, a lifelong Democrat who never has voted for Trump but is offended, even outraged, by the singling out of Donald Trump for prosecution (or even persecution). Latisha James, the New York State Attorney General, ran for election on the promise that she would “get Trump”, which was the basis for this book title. So, she hand-picked an anti-Trump judge who decided on his own (no jury and no expert to independently do an appraisal) that Trump had overvalued his property for a more favorable bank loan rate and fined him half a billion dollars, even though the banks were entirely happy with Trump’s valuation; it was a “crime” with no victim. Even his sons, who had played no part in the loan process, were fined several million dollars. Alvin Bragg, a local DA who also campaigned on getting Trump, resurrected a non-disclosure case, a misdemeanor at most, called it a felony because he said it affected the 2016 election, and elevated it to a federal level felony, even though it this was not the proper venue for trying federal cases. He hand-picked a conflicted judge whose family was benefitting financially from this case and it would be tried in Manhattan, where the jury was 90 percent Democrats. The book was written before the verdict came out and resulted in Trump being labeled a felon, defamation that was calculated to cost Trump votes in the upcoming presidential election. This was felt to be the weakest of the 4 lawsuits filed against him. The two other lawsuits, in Florida and Georgia, were also described in some detail. It makes for interesting reading and will open the eyes of readers whose only news sources are CNN, MSNBC, NPR, Washington Post and even the NYT.
Reviewer: Jon W. Dunn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: good reading
Review: The product is as advertised and was delivered when promised and in good condition.
Reviewer: Stuart K.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A must read regardless of political leaning
Review: Alan Dershowitz and I couldn’t be further apart politically, but we both place the Constitution and rule of law above partisan politics. Although he goes a little off topic a time or two, and it is apparent he lacks “technical knowledge” on a couple of things, Dershowitz aptly explores the hidden dangers of carving out “exceptions” to the Constitution or rule of law when it suits a political agenda, pointing out past trespasses including Lincoln suspending Habeas Corpus, FDR putting Japanese-Americans in internment (e.g. prison) camps, and others. Although I think he’s flat out wrong on several points, he is absolutely right on far more points. One of the things he talks about is how he, a life long far left democrat, has himself experienced what so many others on the opposite end of the spectrum have — cancellation, threats, and intimidation for daring to support the “wrong guy.” I would have liked to see him link the premise of his book, which is “Get Trump” by any means regardless of Constitutionality or legality, to the Saul Alinsky principle of the ends justifying the means. Although he does not, this book adequately and in simple, plain language (you don’t need to be a lawyer or political scientist to understand) the danger of where this “Get Trump” obsession is leading our nation. Indeed Dershowitz wrote Get Trump so anyone can understand it and take heed of the warning he presents. All, regardless of your political persuasion, should read this book. This book is powerful and hence, the five star rating I give it.
Reviewer: Pamela Ballantyne
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fine Book, Not What I Expected
Review: I’ve been a lifelong fan of Alan Dershowitz and generally agree with him. I bought this book expecting to agree with his point of view and to get some understanding of each of the cases being brought against Trump. It’s an excellent defense of civil liberties and free speech, but the book only discusses the classified documents case in detail. Many others are not even mentioned – they may have been brought after the book was finished.It’s an excellent book – if you are already a proponent of civil liberties, you might not learn that much. If you are unsure what you think about all this, I highly recommend this book.
Reviewer: Keith
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Dersh is a sharp lawyer but the book was difficult to get through for me
Review: Dersh is great on the law and constitution, but his TDS, though mild, made this book impossible to get through for me. Halfway through I stopped reading and haven’t restarted. Nice to see he recently wised up and left the Democrat party, but not because they are hell bent on destroying the USA, but because they no longer fully support Dersh’s traditional homeland.
Reviewer: Carlos
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Es un gran libro, que explica las razones y los argumentos de los juicios del presidente Trump, da entender porque legalmente no proceden bajo la ley de los Estados Unidos de América !Escritor Allan Dershowitz !Muy interesante !
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