Tim Alberta is chief political correspondent for POLITICO Magazine, covering Donald Trump's presidency, Capitol Hill, the ideological warfare between and within the two parties, demographic change in America, and the evolving role of money in elections. Tim covered the 2016 campaign for National Review as its chief political correspondent, and was previously at National Journal, where he covered Congress as House leadership reporter and later reported on campaigns as the publication's senior political correspondent. He formerly served as senior editor of The Hotline, reported for The Wall Street Journal and worked as a web producer and assistant editor for POLITICO. Tim's work has been featured in dozens of other publications nationwide, including Sports Illustrated, and he frequently appears as a commentator on political television programs in the United States and around the world. He lives with his wife and three sons in Virginia.
"American Carnage is not a conventional Trump-era book. It is less
about the daily mayhem in the White House than about the
unprecedented capitulation of a political party. This book will
endure for helping us understand not what is happening but why it
happened....[an] indispensable work." -- Carlos Lozada,
Washington Post
"A masterful must-read. Alberta has written a compelling, alarming
and scoop-heavy history of the fall of the party of Lincoln.
American Carnage is filled with scoop. It is an exercise in a
pulling back the curtain, not breathlessness." -- The
Guardian
“A fascinating look at a Republican Party that initially
scoffed at the incursion of a philandering reality-TV star with
zero political experience and now readily accommodates him.
[Alberta] brings more than a decade of reporting and a real
understanding of the conservative movement to American Carnage." --
New York Times Book Review
“Alberta offers something more ambitious than a tale of
palace intrigue.... The abiding theme of the book is that almost
every influential figure in the Party has come to accept or submit
to the President. Although Alberta is clearly not an admirer of the
President, he is not unsympathetic to the voters who have embraced
him and their feelings of resentment toward what they see as an
increasingly liberal culture." -- The New Yorker
"One of the deepest and most fascinating reads about the
transformation of the Republican Party over the last 15 or so
years." -- Politico
"Mandatory reading for anyone who genuinely desires to know how we
got to this point. It's not a shooting civil war within the GOP or
within the country at large. It's not even 1968 or remotely close
to the divisions that cleaved the nation during the Vietnam War and
Watergate. But it is a serious divide." -- Washington
Post
“Alberta argues that Trump won the presidency by
channeling anxious Americans' indignation and darker impulses.
Trump's challenge now, Alberta writes, is to turn a
“freakish if not fluky" victory into a transformational
redefinition of the GOP." -- Axios
“Now comes Tim Alberta, one of the best political
reporters we have, especially on the internecine bloodletting on
the political right, with a new book that details not only how the
president stomped to the Republican nomination, but also the sordid
calculations that allowed the GOP to make its peace with him." --
Esquire
"American Carnage isn't an all-about-Trump book. It's a book that
reaches into the depths of the Republican Party and their
relationship with the president." -- USA Today
“In this new book, American Carnage, by Tim Alberta, we
are reminded about how so many who staked their reputation on
principle caved to political convenience in this administration."
-- CNN
“An eyes-wide-open analysis of right-wing populism." --
New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
"A deeply reported account of internal Republican deliberations
over the past decade. Alberta is admirably merciless as he shows
his subjects abandoning their putative principles and falling in
line behind Trump. (And the reporting is truly impressive - the
scenes he reconstructs are both far more numerous and far more
interesting than those in almost any "behind-the-scenes" reported
political book I can recall.)" -- New York
“An excellent book where Alberta uses the depth of his
reporting to really bring the receipts and show the extent to
which, until [Trump] beat Hillary Clinton, many of the people who
are now his most loyal allies were deeply skeptical of his fitness
for office." -- Vox
“Drawing on extensive interviews with politicians and
pundits, Alberta's engrossing narrative is full of sharp intrigues
and vivid personalities....Incorporating trenchant analysis and a
wealth of detail in stylish prose, Alberta highlights the broad
currents beneath the chaos of recent politics." -- Publishers
Weekly (starred review)
“Alberta brings the receipts, and if nothing else, it's a
helluva portrait of how principles are traded for power." -- The
Ezra Klein Show, Vox
“In American Carnage, his fascinating and exhaustive
account of the path of the Republican Party in the past decade, Tim
Alberta of Politico explains how the party's leadership got so out
of touch with its voters at the end of George W. Bush's
administration and in the early years of Barack Obama's." --
Wall Street Journal
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