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Lucky loser : how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success / Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig.
"Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump [said] ... 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. Except: 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593298640 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2024.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-500) and index. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. Personal narratives. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
"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 wordon the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire"-- - Baker & Taylor
This meticulous, nearly century-spanning narrative, written by two Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporters, tracks Trumpâs financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again, providing the definitive true accounting of Trump and his moneyâand the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire. Illustrations. - Penguin Putnam
An Instant New York Times Bestseller ⢠A Washington Post Notable Book ⢠A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year
âA first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.â âAlexander Nazaryan, The New York Times
From the Pulitzer Prizeâwinning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of President Trumpâs finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trumpâs wealth, revealing how one of the countryâs biggest business failures lied his way into the White House
Soon after announcing his ?rst campaign for the U.S. presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life âhas not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.â 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 multibillion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly quali?ed to lead the country. Except none of it was true. As his wealthy fatherâs chosen successor, Trump received the equivalent today of more than $500 million in family money. He collected a second windfall thanks to Mark Burnett, the revolutionary television producer who made Trump a star. In truth, Trumpâs empire was underwritten, and at times saved, by the equivalent of more than $1 billion that came his way without any of the business expertise he claimed.
Drawing on more than twenty yearsâ worth of Trumpâs con?dential 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 Trumpâs ?nancial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, ?lled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. Here for the ?rst time is the de?nitive true accounting of Trump and his moneyâwhat he had, what he lost, and what he has leftâand the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire, exposed.
