What happens when a self-taught political philosopher, steeped in White nationalist apocalypticism, meets a self-made legend-in-his-own-mind? The double selves in that sentence point to Green’s thesis: that the Donald J. Trump campaign and Steven Bannon came together out of their mutual desires to serve themselves, always the driving force behind whatever success each man has achieved in life. Does either man “believe” in the values they espouse? Green’s research and observations suggest that for these men, beliefs arise from expediency, that which benefits themselves and people like them (White and male, first, and then those who feel small, disfranchised, ridiculed, impotent, however misplaced those feelings are). This book traces Brannon’s pre-Trump career, from Catholic school to military to Goldman Sachs to Hollywood to Breitbart, until Robert and Rebekah Mercer’s sponsorship brought the two men together. The author’s extensive research captures an incredible—literally—moment in time by weaving together the tangled intellectual, political, and philosophical threads that these two men represent. The result? We are all likely to be disappointed, as most of Trump’s business associates are. Let’s hope that’s the worst that happens.