The Department of Revenge
How Trump Took Control of American Justice
$50.70
- Hardcover
304 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2026
Summary
Dear American,
No part of life in the United States has been untouched by Donald Trump’s relentless weaponization of the Justice Department. This is a cautionary tale about how, once a president amasses such power, future presidents may never relinquish it.
Whose votes get counted and whose get tossed out? Who gets prosecuted and who gets protected, like Jeffrey Epstein’s friends? Who gets to run our colleges and schools? How do citizens protest without gettin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781668065129 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1668065126 |
| Author: | Devlin Barrett |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 451g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 152mm x 229mm |
Devlin Barrett
Devlin Barrett has covered federal law enforcement for more than twenty-five years. He writes about the Justice Department and FBI for The New York Times, and previously worked for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, and the New York Post.
In the past decade, he has been part of three Pulitzer Prize–winning reporting teams—for Public Service, for National Reporting, and for Breaking News—and was a cofinalist for Pulitzer Prizes for International Reporting and Feature Writing.
He is also the author of October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election, an account of the FBI’s role in the 2016 presidential election. Barrett lives in Virginia with his wife and children.
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