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The History of Donald Trump: From Master of Selective Attention to Warrior Leader

Suppose They Gave a War and No One Came –Charlotte Keyes (1966), adapting a poem by Carl Sandburg (1936)When I have witnessed ex-President Donald Trump criticizing mainstream media or defying election results, I think of William James (1842-1910). They do make an odd couple, but the celebrity politician has been making masterful use of that mental gatekeeper, selective attention, which the professor and founder of American psychology portrayed at the center of the human mind. Trump seized American attention first in bold real estate deals and as a TV star, then with false charges that President Obama was not born Read more