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Regime Change
The phenomenal bestseller making global headlines
By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan
Read by Robert Petkoff
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About The Book
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
‘A flabbergasting feat of political reporting . . . A news bomb on every page’ Tina Brown, Observer
‘A blockbuster’ Guardian
‘Gobsmacking’ Daily Mail
‘Eye-popping’ Economist
‘Deeply reported and gripping' Financial Times
‘Riveting’ Fintan O'Toole, New York Times
‘Exceptional . . . packed with news that will stay news’ David Remnick, New Yorker
‘It’s sparked fear – and leak inquiries – in the White House’ Sunday Times
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Few expected Donald Trump to return to the White House stronger than before. The indictments, convictions, assassination attempts, and four years of political exile made him not weaker but more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble than any President that came before him.
Regime Change is the definitive account of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms. Journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman investigate the decisions that have defined Trump’s second term, which has been liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him ‘no’ are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles.
Haberman and Swan take you behind the scenes of a presidency that has launched a new war in the Middle East, sealed the border, deployed National Guard troops into American cities, transformed the Justice Department into an instrument of retribution against the President’s enemies, and turned the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a President operating almost entirely on instinct and a White House operating at the edge of political power.
Regime Change shows how Trump has wielded that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. A landmark work of real-time political history, this is the story of a President who has fundamentally altered how the world understands American power.
‘A flabbergasting feat of political reporting . . . A news bomb on every page’ Tina Brown, Observer
‘A blockbuster’ Guardian
‘Gobsmacking’ Daily Mail
‘Eye-popping’ Economist
‘Deeply reported and gripping' Financial Times
‘Riveting’ Fintan O'Toole, New York Times
‘Exceptional . . . packed with news that will stay news’ David Remnick, New Yorker
‘It’s sparked fear – and leak inquiries – in the White House’ Sunday Times
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Few expected Donald Trump to return to the White House stronger than before. The indictments, convictions, assassination attempts, and four years of political exile made him not weaker but more powerful, more vengeful, and more willing to gamble than any President that came before him.
Regime Change is the definitive account of the first year of Donald Trump’s second presidency, based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms. Journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman investigate the decisions that have defined Trump’s second term, which has been liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him ‘no’ are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles.
Haberman and Swan take you behind the scenes of a presidency that has launched a new war in the Middle East, sealed the border, deployed National Guard troops into American cities, transformed the Justice Department into an instrument of retribution against the President’s enemies, and turned the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a President operating almost entirely on instinct and a White House operating at the edge of political power.
Regime Change shows how Trump has wielded that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. A landmark work of real-time political history, this is the story of a President who has fundamentally altered how the world understands American power.
About The Authors
Photograph © Doug Mills/New York Times
Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. A New York City native, Haberman worked at the New York Post, New York Daily News, and Politico, before joining the Times in 2015. She has covered six US presidential elections and several gubernatorial and New York City mayoral races. She was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on President Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia. In 2021, she was part of a team that was a Pulitzer finalist for coverage of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus. She has received the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award, as well as the Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Front Page Award for Journalist of the Year. She is the author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. She lives in New York City with her husband and their three children.
Photograph © Doug Mills/New York Times
Jonathan Swan is a White House correspondent for The New York Times. Originally from Sydney, Australia, he has reported on Donald Trump since 2015, covering all three of his campaigns and his first term in office. Previously at Axios and The Hill, he won an Emmy Award for his 2020 interview of then-President Trump and received the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Aldo Beckman Award. He began his career as a teenage copy boy at a Sydney newspaper and later covered federal politics in Australia’s capital for The Sydney Morning Herald. He became a US citizen in 2024 and lives in Virginia with his wife and two children, with a third on the way.
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Product Details
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK (June 23, 2026)
- Runtime: 17 hours and 6 minutes
- ISBN13: 9781398567610
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Raves and Reviews
‘A flabbergasting feat of political reporting. There are times reading this book when I wondered how the hell these two New York Times scribes got such amazing blow-by-blow dish, unless they were hiding under the Resolute desk in the Oval Office . . . A news bomb on every page’
– Tina Brown, Observer
‘Really amazing . . . extraordinary . . . [a] really good reminder of just how insane the times through which we’re living are’
– Marina Hyde, The Rest is Entertainment
‘Riveting and richly textured… [Haberman and Swan] wrest reality itself back from the distorted world of entertainment, illusion, fantasy and denial that Trump has generated around himself. It is this flood of provocation, atrocity, self-dealing and fabrication that makes Haberman and Swan’s counternarrative so vital’
– Fintan O’Toole , New York Times
'Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre . . . the book is packed with news that will stay news . . . This is reporting of consequence’
– David Remnick, New Yorker
‘Eye-popping . . . dogged, meticulous reporting that illuminates how exceptional this White House is’
– Economist
‘Gobsmacking . . . By the end, it’s hard to disagree with the subtitle’
– Standard
‘Regime Change paints a vivid and deeply unsettling tableau of a chaotic period during which Trump has governed with awesome power and unprecedented impunity’
– Vanity Fair
‘Deeply reported and gripping . . replete with telling detail’
– Financial Times
‘While there have been plenty of books on the US president, this one stands out. It’s sparked fear — and leak inquiries — in the White House due to the depth of its reporting’
– Sunday Times
‘One of the best books ever written about Donald Trump’
– Sydney Morning Herald
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