Bookshelf — Confidence Man, Maggie Haberman

If you felt you weren’t warned about Trump before, you’ve no excuse not to be now

What most surprised me in this thorough, readable biography of the narcissistic, bullying charlatan who captured the White House and then held the nation hostage for four years is how surprising I found his political success at the time. Had I been paying attention, as Maggie Haberman had through most of her career as a reporter in New York City and then in Washington, D.C., I would have seen Donald Trump coming — and so might have enough others to thwart his rapacious…