Supreme Ambition review: Trump, Kavanaugh and the right’s big coup
Ruth Marcus’s well-sourced account reveals a conservative push to dismantle FDR’s legacy through the supreme court
Supreme Ambition has already earned the president’s ire. In a 24 November tweet, Donald Trump trashed the book, its author and her employer: “The Ruth Marcus book is a badly written & reseached [sic] disaster. So many incorrect facts. Fake News, just like the Washington Post!” If the tweeter-in-chief had actually read it, he would probably be even more enraged.
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