Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

In Border Wars, Michael D. Shear '90 and his co-author, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, both reporters for the New York Times who have covered the Trump Administration from its earliest days, document how President Trump and his allies blocked asylum-seekers and refugees, separated families, threatened deportation, and sought to erode the longstanding consensus in favor of immigration. Border Wars describes how Trump planned, stumbled, and fought his way toward changes that have polarized the nation and how his decision-making is marked by gut instinct, disorganization, paranoia, and a constantly feuding staff.