“Terrifying. ... Investigate[s] Trump’s sanity at full length. ... Frances applies his psychiatric expertise to diagnosing and understanding our mass affliction.” — Slate
“This welcome and insightful book joins a small shelf of essential titles—Arlie Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land is another—that help explain why and how the Trump presidency happened.” — Kirkus Reviews
“An unusual and important book.” — Elle
“Allen Frances is right: the deep questions are not about Trump but about the society in which he became even a plausible candidate, much less the president. May Twilight of American Sanity be an opportunity to think more clearly about who we are and what we really want!” — Bill McKibben, environmentalist and author of The End of Nature and Free Radio Vermont
“One of the world’s most prominent psychiatrists.” — The Atlantic (July/August, 2017)
“For some mental-health practitioners, the ethical debate [over Trump’s mental state] is a distraction from a larger point. In Twilight of American Sanity, Allen Frances argues that the more urgent concern is unravelling the national psyche that brought our politics to this moment.” — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker
“An eminent psychiatrist.” — New York Times
“Lively, provocative. ... Frances indicts our broader societal insanity for electing Trump and embracing his views, and offers wide-ranging insights into human behavior and the consequences for society and governance.” — Norman Ornstein, contributing writer, The Atlantic; columnist, National Journal; and resident scholar, the American Enterprise Institute
“The State of the Nation according to the nation’s leading psychiatrist: Allen Frances’s Twilight of American Sanity is informed, insightful, illuminating, interesting, occasionally infuriating, but almost always right.” — Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal Society of Medicine and Regius Professor of Psychiatry at King’s College, London
“Hard-hitting. ... A must-read.” — New York Journal of Books