Get the Summary of Jonathan Lemire's The Big Lie in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In times of peace as well as war and civil unrest, an American constant was the solid conviction that presidential election results would be honored by the losers and power would be transferred smoothly. Yet not by Donald Trump. He was never one to accept defeat, and after he first alleged that an election could be rigged back in 2016, it became clear that the rock he had thrown into the water would cause a tidal wave that would nearly drown democracy. In The Big Lie (2022), political correspondent Jonathan Lemire uncovers how Trump’s Big Lie about the presidential election has turned from a simple accusation to a political philosophy rippling through the Republican Party, which has seized upon Trump’s lies, using them as an excuse to weaken election security and voting rights...