Bestselling author Elizabeth Graham has released a new book, Survival - Democracy's Struggle To Survive, co-authored with eight of the country's leading experts on Donald Trump. The collaborators include bestselling author Craig Unger, David Andelman, Charles Sykes, Steven Beschloss, Dr. Bandy Lee, George A. Polisner, and Mersault. According to the announcement, the book is positioned as one of the most informative works ever produced on the Trump/Russia connection and the importance of being informed about what is really happening behind the scenes of the American electoral process. The new book is available at https://www.amazon.com/stores/Elizabeth-Graham/author/B0CMY189NT.
The book argues that while Americans and the media remain fixated on Trump's sensational behavior, a more dangerous and overlooked threat continues to unfold. It traces the origins of this threat to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, when Putin and his KGB colleagues emerged from the wreckage. Recognizing that Russia's military strength had sharply declined and could not defeat the United States directly, they turned to a deeply covert campaign to weaken the U.S. from within. By the turn of the millennium, the CIA faced a crisis: believing the Cold War was over, it shut down more than thirty overseas intelligence operations and reduced its Russian specialists by over 25 percent, exposing critical U.S. capabilities. Presidents Bush and Clinton, along with much of the public, no longer viewed Russia as an enemy. Yet, like a modern Trojan Horse, Russia only appeared to retreat as elite KGB/FSB operatives infiltrated American society, including an entanglement with a narcissistic American man who loved money and women more than integrity.
Craig Unger, an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of six books and a political analyst, has conducted comprehensive research on Trump and Russia. According to the announcement, Unger has proved without doubt, and by providing solid evidence, that Trump is "owned" by Putin/Russia. Dr. Bandy Lee, a forensic and social psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author, is editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, which accurately predicted the severity and timing of the nation's decline if a dangerously unfit president remained in office.
Graham, who lived in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed, stated: "Few Americans have observed the sweeping changes in the United States over the past decade as closely as I have or understood their corrosive connection to the evolution of Russian politics and government since the Gorbachev era. I witnessed the disbelief of thousands of Russians. I saw ordinary citizens endure joblessness, food shortages, inadequate medical care, and unpaid pensions and salaries. These early Yeltsin years were chaotic, leaving many Russians longing for the familiar stability of communism. Putin and the KGB capitalized on this volatility with a perilous, reticent rise to power."
The book also cites The Fourth World War by Count de Marenches and David Andelman, which warned of "the deadliest war of any fought in recorded time, a war with the real prospect of ending civilization, at least Western civilization, as we know it." Survival concludes that Ukraine and American democracy face a common enemy. The key difference, it argues, is that while Ukrainians endure daily bombing and death, Americans are largely uninformed or in denial about their adversary. The book lists visible signs including a roughly 50 percent jump in gas prices in one year, the loss of health care for ten million Americans in 2026, contaminated foods, an endless war costing nearly $2 billion per day, grocery store closures, restaurant closures such as Wendy's and Village Inn, and an estimated 22 million preventable deaths in Africa by 2030 due to USAID closure, mostly children. It also points to assaults on elections, noting that in 2024 sixty polling sites in Georgia received bomb threats traced to Russian IP addresses, and to fires and bombings, including the burning of South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Diane Goodstein's house and a 2025 explosion at a Tennessee munitions facility that killed 16 employees.
The book's cover features a tree whose roots extend through soil for nourishment, symbolizing that the United States must draw renewed strength from the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
