Breaking History
A White House Memoir
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Sean Pratt
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Jared Kushner
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Jared Kushner
About this listen
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 listeners 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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- Anonymous User
- 30-09-22
Excellent listen.
Fascinating journey through the Trump presidency and all the amazing achievements despite the unprecedented racket of the Dems and counter-intention of some apparent trump supporters on his team. loved this book.
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- L du Toit
- 03-09-22
The world needs more people like Kusher
If only all politicians had the same mindset. The world would be in a better place.
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- Paul Dillon
- 24-06-23
Great book
I need more from Jared. Book 2 must happen soon. Great perspective and detail. Well done
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- Jesper W. Rasmussen
- 25-08-22
Spellbinding Insight in a White House of Outsiders
Really liked this book. I came around 180 on Trump in the second year of his presidency. I just had enough of the media histrionics and started to look at the actual policy, that was conducted while ignoring the silly POTUS45 tweets. And laugh at those that were funny. Jared Kushner's book seems like an honest-as-can-be-expected account of the Trump son-in-law's experiences and accomplishments during the Trump presidency. I like Kushner - and I appreciate the Trump presidency more and more, looking back. Hardcore Lefties should avoid this book at all costs as it will not be expedient to be forced to realise that anyone in the Trump Administration were actually a mensch or even a human being.
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- Mike
- 28-08-22
Great book
It was refreshing to hear straight from Jared and not through the media he is a real inspiration
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-09-22
What a truly great book, and man, but….
Whole thing is stunning, even brought a tear or two.
I had the good fortune to be in Sweden for Covid, where the Covid narrative was essentially irrelevant as it was to many African nations who fared best.
What a profound lesson for all of us that someone *this* utterly brilliant could have been triggered by such an insignificant false premise and poured his enormous powers, vast swathes of industry and $Trillions of waste into it and never once stop to question the basic axiom:
Should we be doing any of this for an ordinary flu bug where the provenly best response for public health, for medical best practice, for the economy and for democracy WAS TO DO NOTHING out of the ordinary!?
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- Laurie Luke
- 11-10-24
Amazing insight
This book is absolutely brilliant insight into the tenure of one of the most influential Presidents in history.
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- evanvrs
- 18-03-25
Fascinating story and mind changing
If this had seven stars, I would give it seven. I arrived at this book with an ambivalent and suspicious view of Trump and left feeling how incredibly he served the American people and how those who oppose him did whatever they could to change that narrative even if it was to the extreme detriment of the American people. I am kind of staggered. I mean hearing that he put through Prison sentencing reform that no president in 20 years have managed, kind of mind blowing really given the Democratic narrative that he is a racist. Literally dozens of examples like that. He risked $14 billion of American taxpayer money to get the vaccine in record time and yet his opposition called him a vaccine sceptic, again and again. I hated to admit it to myself but it is part of a huge “conspiracy“ of myths information propagated by those on the left who wish him to fail and even within the Republican establishment .
Therefore makes clear that the American people are not so dumb and eventually they saw through the lies and voted him a second time.
As for Kushner himself just the most extraordinary hard-working, clever and innovative thinker that the White House could possibly hope to have had. He was not drawn from “establishment“ political operatives and thus was able to do things his way, and deliver deliver deliver. It is an aberration of history which I imagine will eventually get resolved, that he and Trump were not given Nobel peace prize for the Abrahamic Accord.
Superb insight into the White House and global politics could not recommend more highly and I arrived at the story as a huge sceptic.
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- Richard Schmidt
- 06-02-24
Zionist kushner's lightweight arrogance
indifference to Palestinians, impressed with his own position, dilletant, took credit for others' work and results,
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