to with randall stevens at the time, the ceo of at&t who was trying to talk about important changes in communications networks in the u.s.. at some point, trump said, this is really boring. and went on to his discussion about stormy daniels. the book is about something much larger and something that took place long before trump came to office. is basically about the revival of superpower conflict i would say the first 100-150 pages of the book would examine the question of how it was that the united states so deceived itself into believing that china and russia, four for completely separate reasons, would join western institutions and then how we reacted in under reacted when that