Karen Greenberg's Subtle Tools Book Review: How secrecy and confusion became key to governing

This focus on the processes by which power is exercised, rather than the substance of what that power is used to achieve, sets Greenberg’s book apart from other studies of post-9/11 politics and the Trump presidency. “The true course of American politics and history,” Greenberg writes, “is apparent in how events happen as much as in what happened.”