Lucky loser :

by Buettner, Russ

Additional authors: Craig, Susanne -- author.

Published by : Penguin Press (New York) Physical details: 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color), 24 cm ISBN:0593298640; 9780593298640.

Year: 2024

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-500) and index.

Introduction -- Part I: The father. A natural virgin market -- The American way of life -- They just went wild -- In his father's sights -- Toy soldier academy -- March the line -- It's all over now -- All show -- Part II: The son. By no means standing still -- Shadowboxing -- Whatever the Trumps want -- Everything he touches -- The latest jewel -- Mr. Baron's tower -- So much hoopla -- Part III: The everything man. Almost rational -- Risk and reward -- All of life is a stage -- Entertainer-impresario -- Campaign of truth -- White elephants -- Wildest expectations -- No intention to ask -- The spy next door -- Always there for me -- Part IV: Dramality. The producer -- "I used my brain" -- The talent -- The danger of overcommercialization -- Better than real estate -- Don't do this for the money -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

"Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life 'has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.' Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years' worth of Trump's confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump's financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he'll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant--the public image that will carry him to the White House. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous, nearly-century spanning narrative, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump's tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money--what he had, what he lost, and what he has left --and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire"--

"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times expose of then-President Trump's finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump's wealth, revealing how one of the country's biggest business failures lied his way into the White House"--

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