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Robert Dallek’s How Did We Get Here?: From Theodore Roosevelt to Donald Trump is a work of American presidential history and political analysis that asks how a century of leadership, media, and public expectations helped create the conditions for Donald Trump’s rise. Rather than treating Trump as an isolated rupture, Dallek traces patterns across modern presidencies from Theodore Roosevelt through the late 20th century, showing how expanded executive power, image management, foreign policy missteps, and the changing relationship between presidents and voters shaped the political environment. The book is less a biography of Trump than a historical argument about precedent, weakness, and democratic drift. Dallek uses the long arc of presidential history to explain how public cynicism and the personalization of power gradually made a disruptive figure more thinkable and more viable. Its purpose is both explanatory and cautionary: it seeks to show where the system faltered and what that means for American democracy.