What People Are Saying

“For the first time a former KGB employee has gone on record to describe Donald Trump’s historic relationship with the Kremlin. It’s a bombshell that must be looked into.”

“America has removed Putin’s puppet from the White House, but the KGB man who controlled him is still in the Kremlin, eager to repeat the success of his greatest operation: President Trump. Read Craig Unger to understand why the danger to American democracy is far from over.”

“By compiling decades of Trump’s seedy ties, disturbing and consistent patterns of behavior, and unexplained contacts with Russian officials and criminals, Unger makes a strong case that Trump is probably a compromised trusted contact of Kremlin interests”

“Craig Unger has just published a wonderful, well-written book. The jewel in the crown is how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump. With assistance of the eminent former KGB officer Yuri Shvets, American Kompromat establishes how it really took place.”

“A must-read. The gun’s not quite smoking, but the barrel’s plenty hot, and there are Russian shell casings all around.”

“Make[s] the unassailable case that Donald J. Trump has been cultivated by Soviet and Russian leaders.”

“Craig Unger, who gave us the important books House of Bush, House of Saud and The Fall of the House of Bush, once again delivers. Unger probes the matter deeply. Indeed, the entire book is meant to serve as the counter-intelligence investigation that was promised by the Mueller report, but which failed to materialize. Among many useful aspects of this book, American Kompromat provides a detailed retelling of that particular disappointment and highlights the role that Attorney General William Barr played in lying to the American public about Mueller’s work.”

“An extraordinary book and an unapologetic telling of the story of our days….it’s a story as old as the Republic itself, because the whole struggle of our revolution was to create a government that would be an instrument of the common good and not an instrument of one person who gets into office and then uses the government for self-enrichment and self-dealing with his family and his friends and his associates. And so, that struggle is continuing in America. Today. House of Trump, House of Putin. Highly recommended.”

“Unger’s contention is that a web of Trumpian connections to Russia explain the darkness at the heart of the Trump presidency. The crisp account of the rise of the Russian mafia and its expansion into the U.S. is chilling.”

“The story Unger weaves with those earlier accounts and his original reporting is fresh, illuminating and more alarming than the intelligence channel described in the Steele dossier.”

“A bombshell.”

“Damning in its accumulation of detail, terrifying in its depiction of the pure evil of those Trump chose to do business with.”

“Omarosa vs. Trump may be the political pro wrestling match of the week, but a more serious confrontation may be prompted by a book that came out Tuesday, alleging that President Donald Trump may be a Russian asset compromised by billions of laundered dollars over decades of shady real estate deals.”

“Unger, a veteran journalist and author, takes the reader on a veritable tour of sleazy night clubs, restaurants and resorts frequented by Russian oligarchs and criminals in this book subtitled “The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia.” Often, that tour leads to the doors of the White House and Trump Tower, and the implication is clear to even the most obtuse reader: Trump is in Putin’s pocket and those of the financiers who have grown immensely rich through their associations with the country’s putative dictator.”

“It’s no wonder that three quarters of the women in Congress are Democrats. When Women Win is both a rip-roaring political tale and an inspirational blueprint—with every trade secret revealed—of how and why Democratic women have been on the rise in electoral politics for three decades.”

“This is the inspiring, fascinating story of the most potent women’s political movement in the modern era—now 3 million members strong, built one woman at a time—that effectively broke up the “old boys club” in American politics and paved the way for the kind of grassroots fundraising that made our government more democratic.”

“Women had to fight first for the vote, and then for the right to be voted for. No one but no one has been more crucial to this on-going struggle than Ellen Malcolm, and no one has more revealing stories to tell, her own plus those of women candidates in all our diversity. When Women Win will give you faith that this country might one day become a democracy.”

“An inspiring portrait of a gutsy activist who produced a transformation in the political landscape.”

“A must-read….It’s an important and richly narrated reminder to women of why, ‘If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”

“The longtime critic of the Bush family levels his guns at today’s most notorious political consultant. Just in time for the 2012 election, along comes Vanity Fair contributing editor Unger (The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America Today, 2007, etc.) to remind liberals that Karl Rove did not depart the scene with his patron, the reviled W…. An unrelenting critique of the bogeyman of liberals who refuses to go away.”

“Run, don’t walk (go to Amazon if you must), to buy Craig Unger’s brilliant new book The Fall of the House of Bush. Forget about the clash of civilizations between Islam and the West. Unger’s subject is the war that really matters: the one between Islamic, Jewish, and Christian fundamentalists on one side, and the scientific (reality-based!) post-Enlightenment world that some of us still prefer to inhabit.”

“Unger succeeds in…detailing the business interests and personal friendships that evolved between the Bush family’s inner circle and the Saudi elite…[He] does an admirable job revealing how extensively the Bushes parlayed family connections into wealth and power, describing the too cozy interplay of public policy, political opportunity and economic gain….[A]n impressive job.”

“[An] explosive work of journalism.”

“Cautious and elemental...with great care [Unger] has synthesized these scattered reports into a narrative that is as chilling as it is gripping. This book builds a momentum and discovery that makes it impossible to stop reading.”

“[An] intensely researched [and] well written-book.”

“Revealing…This book should be mandatory reading for every member of any 9/11 investigation panel—-even the one appointed by the president….[Intensely researched and well-documented...illuminating, disturbing...skillfully packaged...meticulously referenced.”

“Unger has performed a clear public service by laying out the Bush-Saud relationship and demanding that we see it as a problem that requires accounting.”

“A very powerful, well-researched and sober book that leaves the reader both enlightened and more than a little disturbed.”

“Our daily sources of news, papers and TV, are now so craven, so unvigilant on behalf of the American people, so uninformative, that only in books can we find out what is really going on. I will cite an example: House of Bush, House of Saud by Craig Unger, published near the start of this humiliating, shameful blood-soaked year.”

“Unger fruitfully probes the ambiguous—and fatally compromised—Saudi American relationship spanning two decades….It’s must-reading for anyone who wishes to understand the origins of 9/11 and America’s precarious position in the world today.”

“Unger has performed a clear public service by laying out the Bush-Saudi relationship and demanding that we see it as a problem that requires accounting.”

“A very powerful, well-researched and sober book that leaves the reader both enlightened and more than a little disturbed. You will certainly view the Bush administration—and indeed, American policymaking—through a different prism in the future.”

“A notably intelligent piece of investigative reporting which lights the blue touchpaper and….sticks around to see what happens next. This was—and is—a family business to put the Corleones to shame, generosity and greed, humanity and brutality hopelessly intermingled….We tiptoe gingerly across the thinnest crust of stability. It is Craig Unger’s particular gift to make us see more clearly than ever what lies beneath.”

“A model page-turner.”

“Craig Unger is a fine writer with a shrewd eye for the telling human detail and subtle sense of narration. His book is a dada version of lifestyles of the rich and famous with some of the energy of a picaresque tale and some of the decadence one associates with 18th Century France.”