Roger Stone Releases THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 2016

NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire/ "Roger Stone is one tough cookie. . . . We appreciate him." President-Elect DONALD J. TRUMP

From Roger Stone, the New York Times bestselling author, longtime political adviser and friend to Donald Trump, and consummate Republican strategist, comes The Making of the President 2016 (Skyhorse Publishing hardcover, January 31, 2017, $29.99), the first in-depth examination of how Trump's campaign tapped into the national mood to deliver a stunning victory that almost no one saw coming.

In the early hours of November 9, 2016, one of the most contentious, polarizing, and vicious presidential races came to an abrupt and unexpected end when heavily favored presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called Donald J. Trump to concede, shocking a nation that had, only hours before, given little credence to his chances. Donald Trump pulled the greatest upset in American political history despite a torrent of invective and dismissal from the mainstream media. Here is the first definitive explanation about how the "silent majority" shifted the election to Donald Trump in reliably Democratic Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan, thus handing him the presidency.

The Making of the President 2016 reveals how Trump brilliantly picked at Hillary Clinton's weaknesses, particularly her reputation as a crooked insider, and ignited the passions of out-of-work white men and women from the rust belt and beyond, at a time when millions of Americans desperately wanted change. Stone also reveals how and why the mainstream media got it wrong, including how the polls were loaded, and completely misunderstood who would vote.

Stone's analysis is akin to Theodore H. White's seminal book The Making of the President 1960. It is both a sweeping analysis of the trends that elected Trump as well as the war stories of a hard-bitten political survivor whom Donald Trump called "one tough cookie."

Roger Stone is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Man Who Killed Kennedy. He is a legendary American political consultant and strategist who played a key role in the election of Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush. He was also instrumental in the 2000 Florida recount responsible for the election of George W. Bush. Stone is also the author of The Clintons' War on Women, The Benghazi Report, The Bush Crime Family, Tricky Dick, and Nixon's Secrets.

SKYHORSE PUBLISHING, one of the fastest-growing independent book publishers in the United States, was launched in September 2006 by Tony Lyons, former president and publisher of the Lyons Press. It has had forty-five titles on the New York Times bestseller list over the course of its ten-year history.

With a backlist of more than six thousand titles, Skyhorse publishes a maverick list that includes fiction, nonfiction, history, politics, rural living, cooking, humor, and children's books. Lyons is dedicated to publishing books that make people's lives better, whether that means teaching them a hobby, bringing them a unique and important story, or encouraging them to fight against injustices, conspiracies, or abuses of power.

The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution by Roger Stone Skyhorse Publishing hardcover, also available as an e-book | On Sale: January 31, 2017

ISBN 978-1-5107-2692-5 | $29.99

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