Matt Taibbi WH Allen, 2017, PB, 352pp, £14.99, 978-0753548400
In Insane Clown President Matt Taibbi, a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine, chronicles the Republican primaries and the subsequent presidential election of 2016. He sets the tone for the book in his introduction in which he gives a fascinating insight into the dysfunctional hand-in-glove relationship of politicians and the media in the US. Existing within a frenzied bubble, this self-absorbed symbiosis moves as a herd from photo opportunity to photo opportunity, judging policies only by …