by Jean Guerrero
Stephen Miller is one of the most influential advisors in the White House. He has crafted Donald Trump?s speeches, designed immigration policies that ban Muslims and separate families, and outlasted such Trump stalwarts as Steve Bannon and Jeff Sessions. But he?s remained an enigma.Until now. Emmy- and PEN-winning investigative journalist and author Jean Guerrero charts the thirty-four-year-old?s astonishing rise to power, drawing from more than one hundred interviews with his family, friends, adversaries and government officials, as well as years of reporting from the U.S. border.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Radicalized during a rocky period in his youth, Miller relished provocation at his high school in liberal Santa Monica, California. He clashed with administrators and dark-skinned classmates over his invectives against bilingualism and multiculturalism. At Duke University, he cloaked racist and classist ideas in the language of patriotism and heritage to get them airtime amid controversies.