Culture | Tracking right

Three books probe Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party

With tellingly varying degrees of success

FILE -- The "Stop the Steal" rally outside the White House in Washington, hours before a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. "The figure of John Eastman, a constitutional theorist, former law professor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, looms increasingly large in retrospectives on the events of Jan. 6, and for good reason," writes New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. (Mark Peterson/The New York Times)Credit: New York Times / Redux / eyevineFor further information please contact eyevinetel: +44 (0) 20 8709 8709e-mail: info@eyevine.comwww.eyevine.com

The Destructionists. By Dana Milbank. Doubleday; 416 pages; $30

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