Trump Touts Victor Davis Hanson’s Book on His Comeback and Second Term
Trump shares a bestseller-list image for “The Counterrevolution,” historian Victor Davis Hanson's account of the president's political fall and rise and the MAGA movement.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump promoted “The Counterrevolution,” the new book by historian Victor Davis Hanson examining the president’s political fall and return to power.
The image Trump posted shows the title ranked in the number one position on a nonfiction bestseller list. The entry describes how Hanson evaluates the influence of Trump’s time out of office on his second term. The graphic carries a repeated “OR REDISTRIBUTION” watermark and lists the publisher as Basic Books.
Here is the full post on truthsocial: “THE COUNTERREVOLUTION, by Victor Davis Hanson. (Basic) The author of ”The End of Everything“ evaluates the influence President Trump’s time out of office on his second term.” on September 16, 2026 at 6:49 PM ET.
This is Trump’s 6th message released today, and the last post was 46 minutes ago, and it is not part of a thread. On average, Trump produces 18 posts per day since his inauguration on January 20, 2025. The move fits a broader pattern in Trump’s recent messaging, with 95 of his 581 posts over the last 30 days classified as Elections posts.
Hanson wrote the book as the story of Trump’s comeback, framed by the subtitle “The Fall and Rise of Trump and the MAGA Movement,” according to hachettebookgroup. The publisher describes the work as an account of how Trump regained power and came to lead an American counterrevolution, telling the story of his triumphant comeback and what his second term means for the country, according to hachettebookgroup.
The book ran 496 pages and went on sale September 8, 2026, priced at $34 in hardcover, according to hachettebookgroup. Hanson is a senior fellow in military history at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, Fresno, according to hachettebookgroup. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including “The Case for Trump,” “The Dying Citizen” and “The End of Everything,” according to hachettebookgroup.
The book’s central argument holds that the aggressiveness of Trump’s second-term agenda can only be understood as the product of his four years in the political and legal wilderness, according to audible. When Trump left office in January 2021, most observers thought his political career was over, silenced on social media, pilloried by the press and targeted for prosecution, according to audible. The account details the tactical errors of Trump’s opponents and how he shaped his renewed agenda around striking back, according to audible.
Hanson called Trump’s 2024 return the second time a president won nonconsecutive terms, according to thefp. In an excerpt, the historian raised what he called the question at the heart of the movement, whether Trumpism will outlast Trump once its founder relinquishes leadership, according to thefp. Trump entered his second and last term on January 20, 2025, at age 78, and would be 82 when scheduled to depart the White House in January 2029, according to thefp.
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