TY - BOOK AU - Siskind,Amy TI - The list: a week-by-week reckoning of Trump's first year SN - 1635572711 AV - E912 .S57 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - St. Martins Press KW - Trump, Donald, KW - Presidents KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Politics and government KW - 2017- N1 - Includes an index and bibliographic references N2 - In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The New Agenda, began compiling a list of actions taken by the Trump regime that pose a threat to our democratic norms. Under the headline: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you'll remember Siskind's Weekly List began as a project she shared with friends, but it soon went viral and now has more than half a million viewers every week. Compiled in one volume for the first time, The List is a first draft history and a comprehensive accounting of Donald Trump's first year. Beginning with Trump's acceptance of white supremacists the week after the election and concluding a year to the day later, we watch as Trump and his regime chips away at the rights and protections of marginalized communities, of women, of us all, via Twitter storms, unchecked executive action, and shifting rules and standards. The List chronicles not only the scandals that made headlines but just as important, the myriad smaller but still consequential unprecedented acts that otherwise fall through cracks. It is this granular detail that makes The List such a powerful and important book ER -