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Breaking History

A White House Memoir

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Jared Kushner was one of the most consequential presidential advisers in modern history. For the first time, he recounts what happened behind closed doors during the Trump presidency.

Few White House advisors have had such an expansive portfolio or constant access to the president. From his office next to Trump, senior adviser Jared Kushner operated quietly behind the scenes, preferring to leave the turf wars and television sparring to others.

Now, Kushner finally tells his story—a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no one saw coming.

Breaking History takes readers inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United Nations, tense meetings in Arab palaces, high-stakes negotiations, and the daily barrage of leaks, false allegations, investigations, and West Wing infighting.

A true historical thriller, this book is not your typical political memoir. Kushner details Washington's intense resistance to change and reveals how he broke through the stalemates of the past. An outsider among outsiders, Kushner was a results-driven executive among beltway power brokers. He questioned old assumptions and delivered unprecedented results on trade, criminal justice reform, production of COVID-19 vaccines, and Middle East peace. His successful negotiation of the Abraham Accords, the most significant diplomatic breakthrough in 50 years, earned him a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Written by one of the few people by Trump's side from his trip down the golden escalator to his final departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Breaking History provides the most honest, nuanced, and definitive understanding of a presidency that will be studied for generations.

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    • Kirkus

      October 1, 2022
      The colorless Trump functionary fails to inspire in a look-at-me memoir. "One rule applies to both fathers-in-law and presidents. When they ask for help, there's only one answer: yes." Another rule applies to Kushner's memoir: When it works, he gets the credit; when it doesn't, others are to blame. The author risks dislocating his shoulder patting himself on the back for having "orchestrated some of the most significant breakthroughs in diplomacy in the last fifty years." Naturally, he accomplished these and other feats by learning geopolitics on the fly while facing down a host of opponents single-handedly. When not self-congratulatory--or fawning, when it comes to the man whom he at least calls Trump, usually without the increasingly inappropriate-seeming honorific "President"--Kushner is aggrieved. He opens with an embittered account of his father's prosecution at the hands of attorney Chris Christie for witness tampering and violations against the Mann Act, whereupon Christie "sought to punish my father in a way that would hurt the most: by putting other Kushner...executives in jail, bankrupting the family business, and shutting it down for good." This Kushner secured his revenge by keeping Christie out of the Trump White House, but he's an equal-opportunity hater, both barrels constantly aimed at Steve Bannon--a gossipy morsel is that Bannon, by Kushner's account, "didn't hide his disappointment" when Kellyanne Conway passed a drug test--but also trained on Priebus, Lewandowski, Kelly, Comey, Fauci, and a battery of other well-known names. As for Trump, father to the "arrestingly beautiful" Ivanka, well, he can do no wrong except perhaps to be overly enthusiastic. So, it seems, were those who stormed the Capitol, an event to which Kushner devotes just a couple of cautious, don't-blame-us pages ("no one at the White House expected violence that day"). Bland, dutiful, self-serving, and unconvincing.

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