TY - JOUR T1 - Books: <em>Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the American Circus</em> JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 224 LP - 224 DO - 10.3399/bjgp17X690749 VL - 67 IS - 658 AU - Adam Staten Y1 - 2017/05/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/67/658/224.2.abstract N2 - Matt Taibbi WH Allen, 2017, PB, 352pp, £14.99, 978-0753548400In 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 … ER -