"Professor Emeritus Roddey Reid could have retired from the University of California San Diego to a life of deserved leisure. Instead he just published a Handbook on Political Intimidation/Bullying, which is increasingly dominating government, business, and civil society.... Reid is systematic and illustrative in this fast-paced book."

-Ralph Nader, Public Interest

"Reid's 13 strategies for resisting political intimidation, elaborated in detail over the course of this book, are thoughtful and well-articulated, and they include such advice as educating members of the public about the issues at hand and examining the potential vulnerabilities of the resistance.... [His] persistent optimism throughout this book will come as a comfort to many news-weary readers, who may be discouraged by the fact that government agents have continued to use extreme violence against protestors-including those who've exercised strategies that are very similar to those in this book. Resistance, he writes, "is about separating ourselves from our fear and undoing fear as the ground of our collective existence." Many readers, looking for hopeful guidance, will be cheered by how the author so clearly lays out such ideas."

-Kirkus Reviews

"Deeply researched, conceptually sophisticated, and engagingly written, Roddey Reid's excellent book makes an indispensable contribution."

-Carl Freedman, author of The Age of Nixon

"Roddey Reid's latest volume shows that Trump mastered, but did not originate, the hyper-tough entrepreneurial bully and autocratic chief executive we see today. His book offers a refreshingly original and convincing study of public bullying as the link between budget austerity, hyper-wealth, and reactionary populism. As the US plunges ever more deeply into authoritarian rule, it forces us to look again at the fabric of our everyday social relations and political choices. To begin to imagine a different kind of politics, to conceive of a more compassionate and knowledgeable society, and to put these goals in practice before it is too late, we need this book."

Jody Berland, author of North of Empire: Essays on the Cultural Technologies of Space

"If you have found yourself wondering how the President morphed from the commander-in-chief to the bully-in-chief, not once but twice, this is the book for you. The short answer: it didn't happen all at once. Reid expertly shows how the Trump phenomenon is the culmination of a decades-long history of transformations affecting not only national political discourse but rooted as well in arenas as diverse and pervasive as workplace culture, the neoliberal spirit of capitalism, and the culture of insecurity in the age of limitless war... Confronting Political Intimidation and Public Bullying is a wake-up call and a call to action in the name of a livable-and shareable-future."

Brian Massumi, author of The Personality of Power

"Reid highlights in his extended essay the ways in which Trump's behavior, and more importantly its resonance with American voters, is less the product of a personality disorder than an expression of the culture of public bullying and intimidation that has become prevalent in business, politics, and media since the beginnings of globalization. Lively and accessibly written, his book questions the adequacy of our liberal juridical institutions in an era of weaponized speech, politicized law enforcement, and armed state violence."

Gershon Shafir, author of A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World's Most Intractable Conflict