THE BIG LIE by Jonathan Lemire (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)

THE BIG LIE by Jonathan Lemire (Audiobook)(Nonfiction)
Author: Jonathan Lemire
Full title: The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020
Length: Audiobook; 10 hours 20 minutes
Release date: July 26, 2022
Genre/Categories: Nonfiction; U.S. politics; Contemporary history; Journalism

Lemire argues that Donald Trump’s “Big Lie” about a stolen 2020 election is not a one‑off falsehood but a long‑running political strategy that began in 2016, when Trump first floated claims of a “rigged” system, and has since hardened into a guiding philosophy for much of the Republican Party. Drawing on his reporting as a White House correspondent, he reconstructs events from the 2016 campaign through January 6 and into the Biden era, showing how Trump, GOP leaders, conservative media, and Democratic responses collectively created a politics in which one major party is organized around a lie about democracy itself.