Lucky Loser

How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

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<b>An Instant <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller <b>• A <i>Washington Post</i> Notable Book <b>• </b>A <i>Financial Times</i> Best Business Book of the Year<br><br>“A first-rate financial thriller . . . <i>Lucky Loser</i> is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” —Alexander Nazaryan, <i>The New York Times</i><br><br>From the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell <i>New York Times</i> exposé of 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<br><br>Soon after announcing his first campaign for the U.S. 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 multibillion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except none of it was true. As his wealthy father’s chosen successor, Trump received the equivalent today of more than [...] million in family money. He collected a second windfall thanks to Mark Burnett, the revolutionary television producer who made Trump a star. In truth, Trump’s 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.<br><br>Drawing on more than 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, <i>New York Times</i> investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump’s financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, <i>Lucky Loser</i> is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with sc

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780593834299

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

232 x 155 x 32 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin LLC US