IMMERSIVE BESTSELLER IN THE NEW YORK TIMES This insightful critique of the status of American politics, democracy, and elections comes from the host of MSNBC's WAY TOO EARLY and the head of POLITICO's White House Bureau. Lemire has completed his homework, - The Guardian "Big Lie," as it has been dubbed, is not just about the 2020 election, as Jonathan Lemire reveals. The two parties are even more separated now that it has evolved into a political philosophy. In 2016, during a rally in Ohio in August, Donald Trump made the first attempt. In his run against Hillary Clinton, he said that he might not accept the results because they were "rigged." The situation was already in place, so he didn't need to contest the outcome that year. He restarted the lie after his defeat in 2020, which had disastrous consequences: an uprising in the Capitol in January 2021. Throughout Donald Trump's turbulent, paradigm-shifting presidency and beyond, his near-constant lying has established itself as a fact of political life.

It is intimately connected to how his party acts, how the Democrats react to it, and how he continues to be relevant even after suffering a crushing defeat in 2020. In his first book, which examines how this phenomena impacts our politics, Jonathan Lemire draws on his relationships, reputation, and tenacious reporting skills. Big Lie is the first book to analyze this unprecedented and precarious era in our country's politics, and it is written with keen political knowledge and filled with dozens of interviews.