Inside Trump's 'cartoonishly chaotic' presidency

The backbiting led to constant personnel turnover, a dreary parade of firings, resignations and defenestrations

THE DIVIDER: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 

Author: Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

Publisher: Doubleday

Pages: 752

Price: $32

“His job wasn’t to get things done but to stop certain things from happening, to prevent disaster.”

This line from Peter Baker and Susan Glasser’s detail-rich history of the Trump administration, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, technically applies to his first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson. But in truth it describes any of several dozen beleaguered helpmates to the former president, whose propensity for petulant rage kept Washington in a fit of indignation and the White House in a mode of