The Making of Donald Trump:

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER that connects the dots from Donald Trump’s racist background to the Russian scandals”A searing indictment.” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times”Johnston has given us this year’s must-read Trump book.” — Lawrence O’Donnell, host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’DonnellThe international bestseller that brought Trump’s long history of racism, mafia ties, and shady business dealings into the limelight. Now with a new introduction and epilogue.  Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who had spent thirty years chronicling Donald Trump for the New York Times and other leading newspapers, takes readers from the origins of the Trump family fortune—his grandfather’s Yukon bordellos during the Gold Rush—to his tumultuous gambling and real estate dealings in New York and Atlantic City, all the way to his election as president of the United States, giving us a deeply researched and shockingly full picture of one of the most controversial figures of our time.

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Weight 0.29 kg
Dimensions 2.03 × 13.97 × 3.77 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

288

Publisher

Year Published

2017-11-14

Imprint

Publication City/Country

USA

ISBN 10

161219687X

About The Author

DAVID CAY JOHNSTON is an investigative journalist and winner of a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for journalism. A long-time reporter for the New York Times and the former president of the Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), he founded DCreport.org, a nonprofit news service that reports what the President and Congress do, not say. He is also the author of several New York Times bestsellers, including Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch. He has won the IRE Medal and a George Polk Award for his investigative reporting, and is a columnist for The Daily Beast, National Memo and USA TODAY. Johnston teaches at Syracuse University College of Law and lives in Rochester, New York.

”Provides useful, vigorously reported overviews of Mr. Trump’s life and career … Mr. Johnston, who has followed the real estate impresario for nearly three decades, offers a searing indictment of his business practices and creative accounting.”—Michiko Kakutani, THE NEW YORK TIMES”David Cay Johnston has given us this year’s must-read Trump book.”—Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC’s The Last Word”Johnston devastatingly covers ground he broke open as a reporter on the Trump beat in Philadelphia and at The New York Times…The best of investigative reporting is brought to bear”—USA TODAY”David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times investigative reporter, gives Trump the thorough scrubbing he deserves…Johnston has done voters a service with this unblinking portrait. He makes a compelling case that Trump has the attributes of both 'dictator' and 'deceiver'”—FINANCIAL TIMES”Carefully fleshes out the details of Trump's known biography…with solid documentation.”—TAMPA BAY TIMES"Johnston's case is unassailable and eye-opening." —THE NATION”A devastating attack on the Republican presidential nominee….[Johnston] carefully disentangles the knot of lies that has so far characterised Trump’s presidential campaign.”—THE INDEPENDENT”Johnston…maintains a crisply matter-of-fact approach throughout this scrupulously detailed and documented chronicle.”—BOOKLIST

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