Two books I hope you do not mood affiliate against

The firtst is Laura K. Field, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.

The author chronicles the history of the “New Right” from a left-wing perspective, and often in ways that non-Trumpers also will find objectionable.  Still, the book has plenty of facts and substance, and it is the best history of this group I know of.  There is plenty of biography and group identification in here, so it serves as a guidebook.

The second is Mahmood Mamdani, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State.  I ordered this one before I knew who wrote it, namely Papa Mamdani.  Again, there is plenty you can object to here, but it is an actual (partial) history of Uganda, interwoven with autobiography.  The author actually tries to explain to you what was going on, rather than writing to “fill a gap in the literature,” or whatever.  Too bad his actual views are so objectionable — Papa Mamdani, Uganda never had neoliberalism!  Yet I am glad I bought it and will continue reading it, because it fills in many pieces of the story, most of all for the Ugandan campaigns against Israelis, the British, and Indians.

And there you go.