Donald Trump's Circus Maximus and Joe Biden's Excellent Adventure

During the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections, Matthew Mills Stevenson followed the many Republican and Democratic candidates in primary states, at political conventions, and in various debates—coming away with first-hand impressions of those who would be president, including Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. He travels across New Hampshire and Iowa, hears candidates in New York, Washington D.C., and Chicago, and attends numerous political rallies. His book, however, is anything but conventional, as he writies with verve and humor about everything he sees and hears on the campaign trails. He attends one of the first Trump rallies in New Hampshire in 2015, writing: "From where I stood at the back of the room, Donald was hard to see coming into the ballroom. At first all I could make out, bobbing along the stage over the heads of the adoring cops, was his trapezoidal hair, which is the color of marmalade and turns on more angles than the track of the Daytona Speedway.