Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History

Few Americans had heard of Anthony Fauci before COVID-19. By the pandemic's peak, he had become arguably the most powerful unelected official in American history, shaping the lives and freedoms of hundreds of millions without the electoral accountability a free society requires. In Faucian Bargain, Steve Deace and Todd Erzen deliver a source-cited case against Fauci's unprecedented accumulation of power, arguing the pandemic response was guided not purely by science but by bureaucratic self-interest and political calculation that devastated liberty and public health. A #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller praised by DeSantis, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Mark Levin, and Glenn Beck, this is the most thoroughly documented indictment of pandemic-era government overreach, and a warning about what it costs a free society to surrender its most consequential decisions to unelected experts.