The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year
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The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom “The Weekly List".
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.
For everyone hoping to #resistTrump, The List is a must-have guide to what we as a country have lost in the wake of Trump’s election. #Thisisnotnormal
The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List."
A groundswell of interest: Amy’s weekly list gets anywhere from 500,000 to a million views a week. As long as Trump is president, the continued list will serve as publicity for this edition.
First page of history: This is an all-important account of the first 52 weeks of an insane presidency and serves as a comprehensive study of all that has changed in the country in the course of a single year.
Perfect author, with a great story behind book: Amy Siskind has made it her mission to document the changes going on in the country, and she’s been inundated with media interest that is sure to be ongoing. Some of her television and radio appearances include: CNN, Fox News, CNBC, PBS, NPR, and Marketplace Radio. A frequent source for national press, Siskind has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
Big Named Supporters: Robert Reich, Larry Sabato, Chelsea Handler, David Gergen, and Sophia Bush have given their support, and she’s also followed by such celebrities as Samantha Bee, Patricia Arquette, and Debra Messing.
Archived at the Library of Congress: Siskind’s Weekly List has the honor of being archived at the LOC.
A must-have for the resistance: Trump has some of the lowest public approval ratings in history, and the resistance is ever-growing. This will be a badge of honor for people wanting to #resistTrump.
High Profile Blurbers: We have commitments to blurb The List from Rebecca Solnit, Carol Anderson, Michelangelo Signorile, Kirstin Gillibrand, and Samantha Bee.
The List reminds us Trump is not normal, and he’s imposing incalculable harm on America. Not only must he be resisted, but we must never again allow our democracy to be imperiled by a demagogue. Our first line of defense is knowledge of what he’s doing to America and the world. Here it is.
Someday The List will be used as a high school history text book and those students are going to think “what the F@#$.” Honestly, I think that too.
A Homeric catalog, in numbered lists, of all the wrongs the current occupant of the White House has done unto the republic... An astonishing roster, documenting history as it is being made and democracy as it is being unmade.
An unusual and essential book. It’s hard to read it straight through, except that’s the whole point . . . I hope Siskind writes ‘The List, Vol. II,’ and a third and fourth as well. I would read them all. There is strength in the immutability of the exercise, a counter to government by alternative facts.
More than just required reading for the panicky Resistance, her accounts have become a real-time record of the Trump era, one fallen norm at a time.
This document makes clear, in black and white, how norms have changed and the ways in which checks and balances have become frayed.
Illuminating work . . . a worrying document of the current state of American affairs.
Siskind’s compulsively readable book is the real first draft of history.
A rarely important addition to the existing and growing literature on current American politics. Amy Siskind has done a highly commendable job of writing what can be described [as] the outline of our current history . . . a necessary read not only for students and experts of American politics and history, but also all Americans who care for their country.
Amy Siskind’s The List is a document of how, millimeter by millimeter, truth, democracy, and the rule of law, WERE beaten down. Not a few fought back--including Siskind. The act of remembering, of not losing one’s bearings, is itself a form of resistance that matters, and this book is a testament to that strategy.
In great detail and with skillful precision, Amy Siskind sounds the alarm on how the United States becomes more authoritarian under Donald Trump by the week. The List enrages but also informs, turning anger into action. It is nothing short of a call to arms for a time in which citizens must become organized. Siskind is keeping track, making sure we never forget, so that we beat back this horrific tide and make sure a turn toward extremism never happens again. Use it to inform and inspire, and as a guide for the way forward.
Amy’s work of cataloging our shattered civic and ethical norms will prove vitally important when we seek to restore them after the current assault on the institutions of our representative form of government ends.
The most helpful book I read in 2018.
- Title: The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year
- Author: Amy Siskind
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 528
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781635572728, 9781635572711, 1635572711, 163557272X
- Resource ID: LLS:9781635572728
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T15:21:31Z
Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A former Wall Street executive, she's President and Co-founder of The New Agenda, a national organization working on issues including economic independence and advancement, gender representation and bias, and campus sexual assault. She is a frequent source for the national press, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times.