The Making of Donald Trump

Zusatztext ”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 Time s...The best of investigative reporting is brought to bear on a man who could potentially lead the free world.”— 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' and would be a disaster in the Oval Office.” — 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 ”If you follow the news at all! you’ll know that a number of allegations have recently been raised against GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump…It’s due in good measure to veteran investigative reporter Johnston…that these charges have seen the light of day. Here! without undue breathlessness and certainly without any coyness! he elaborates on those newsworthy sound bites…connecting dots and establishing patterns.”— KIRKUS REVIEWS ”Johnston…maintains a crisply matter-of-fact approach throughout this scrupulously detailed and documented chronicle.”— BOOKLIST Informationen zum Autor 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 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. Zusammenfassung THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER that first revealed the Russia connection The culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump! this in-depth report by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston takes a revealingly close look at the mogul's rise to prominence --- and! now! ultimate power   Covering the long arc of Trump’s career! Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens! NY would become an entirely new! and complex! breed of public figure. Trump is a man of great media savvy! entrepreneurial spirit! and political clout. Yet his career has been plagued by legal troubles and mounting controversy.   From the origins of his family’s fortune! to his own too-big-to-fail business empire; from his education and early career! to his whirlwind and ultimately successful presidential bid! The Making of Donald Trump provides the fullest picture yet of Trump’s extraordinary ascendency. Love him or hate him! Trump’s massive influence is undeniable! and figures as diverse as Woody Guthrie...

Product details

• Authors: David C. Johnston, David Cay Johnston
• Publisher: Melville House
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781612196329
• ISBN: 978-1-61219-632-9
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 236 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Biographien (div.), Trump, Donald