legislative affairs). While there is support for the latter thesis, there is not support for the former. In sum, The President on Capitol Hill is a must‐read for students of the American presidency. The take‐home point is succinctly put by Cohen: “presidents have a measurable amount of influence with Congress, enough to carry the day on a significant proportion of roll calls, and this may have consequences for the production of public policy” (p. 260). Those who study the presidency would do well to pay significant attention to this study, as it paints a much clearer picture of presidential power relative to Congress. JOSHUA B. KENNEDY Georgia Southern University Un‐American: The Fake Patriotism of Donald J. Trump by John J. Pitney Jr. Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 248 pp. $21.95. How can a man who hugs the American flag in front of thousands of adoring fans be un‐American? This is the question that John J. Pitney Jr. answers in his new book on The Fake Patriotism of Donald Trump. As a professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College, a lifelong conservative, and a former opposition researcher for the Republican National Committee, Pitney is the right man for the job. Professor Pitney begins the book by teaching his readers the most important features of the American political tradition and then proceeds to meticulously demonstrate, point by point, how Donald Trump’s entire life, including his short‐lived political career, has been a repudiation of everything that makes America great. Many political scientists, most of whom see the world very differently than Pitney and are more critical of America’s founding and history, may be tempted to assume that President Trump—with his racist rhetoric, history of sexual assault and misogyny, and scapegoating of immigrants—personifies the American political tradition. They would be wrong. While racism, sexism, and nativism are certainly a part of America’s past, they are not unique to the United States. They are found in countries all over the world and throughout history. What makes the United States of America great is that it is explicitly and self‐consciously founded on the idea of equal natural rights. America, according to Pitney, is a set of ideals rather than a race, ethnicity, religion, tribe, or language. To truly be an American is to embrace the founding ideas of God‐given natural rights, human dignity, self‐rule, and limited government. As Pitney demonstrates with mountains of evidence, 164 | BOOK REVIEWS