Praise for Downfall and Andrew Hacker

“The statistics Hacker provides are always revealing and often downright shocking.”

—Washington Post

“Andrew Hacker has written a provocative book predicting a Trump defeat in 2020. And it goes beyond Trump to address changes in American society and politics that have influenced the current turmoil in the United States. Book discussion groups will be debating its contents right up to November and beyond.”

—Joel D. Aberbach, Distinguished Professor Emeritus
of Political Science and Public Policy, UCLA

“Few people writing today for a general audience can make more sense of numbers.”

—Wall Street Journal

“Hacker’s calm, analytical eye, his unblinking view of American history, and his unwillingness to accept cast and ‘common sense’ as facts.”

—The New York Times

“In an area dominated by polemics, disingenuousness or the Saharan aridity of academic prose, Hacker invites us into his den for a quiet and richly documented conversation.”

—Boston Globe

“Quietly terrifying.”

—Christian Science Monitor

“Hacker’s accounting of American history is knowledgeable, his judgments on it are just.”

—TIME

“Accurate, incisive, never dull.”

—Times Literary Supplement

“Perceptive, sharp, and stimulating.”

—Atlanta Journal