Series ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law
James B. Stewart · 2019
🎙 Narrated by Keith Szarabajka
78/100
👍 Worth It
Stewart's reporting on the Trump-FBI-Mueller saga is rigorous and clearly told, landing as a credible, well-crafted account of that chapter of the human drama behind the headlines. Just know going in this is politically charged, real-world territory rather than neutral trivia -- it doesn't reach a definitive conclusion on every underlying allegation, which is honest but may leave some readers wanting more. Keith Szarabajka's narration is capable and well suited to serious nonfiction.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: Politically divisive, real-world subject matter -- flagging as a sensitive political topic rather than a content-safety issue. We still scored it 78; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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🎙 Narration: good Keith Szarabajka is an established audiobook and voice actor; no specific critique of this performance found.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety80
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing80
Originality65
Evidence & accuracy82
Hype vs delivers68
Age-fit80
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict78
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