The Divider is a book about the orange genital wart's administration, that basically chronicles events from beginning to end before it was elected to after it was finally "gone". Pretty much all of the main topics in the book had been widely reported, but the authors include new details some of which, chances are, even if you are a regular consumer of reputable news sources (basically anything that is not FOX, Newsmax, or OANN), will still probably be new.
The authors of the book are a husband and wife team of journalists, which would not be a thing except for the MAGAt butthurt crybabies using it as a reason to say the book they have never read (and a lot probably cannot read) is full of lies. It is not the first book that they have co-written, and of course, it is only the topic of the book that even remotely makes that a thing. Unlike some of the other books by currently active journalists that tend to stick to a strict retelling of the facts without editorializing, the authors make their opinions of the former guy abundantly clear. They do not explicitly call him batshit crazy like Michael Wolff does, but they certainly make it clear that they think he is a pathological liar (which he is) and should never have any kind of power again (which he shouldn't). But, they back up their factual contentions by citing to hundreds of sources. There are a ton of endnotes that mostly just point to where they gathered information from. Some of the notes also flesh out material in the text, but mostly they just cite a source and move on. The source material they cite includes earlier books written about the prior administration, news and magazine articles, TV interviews, court, and/or congressional testimony, and a lot of original interviews that the authors conducted when researching the book, including with the chief crybaby itself.
One thing that really stood out is just how much almost everyone who worked in the administration early on hated t***p and thought he was stupid, crazy, and dangerous. Yet, of course, many of them never said anything when it still would have mattered.
Realistically, whether you are likely to like (or even read) the book will depend on your politics and/or opinion of the former guy. The book is fairly long (about 650 pages) and pretty dense. It is not a book that can be read in detail in a day or less. So, I would be very wary of any early reviews. The last handful of chapters that discusses the post-election events probably has the newest not-previously-reported material, which is also some of the most overall revealing material. It is definitely worth reading.
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