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Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention Kindle Edition
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Now, Barrett's classic book is back in print for the first time in years and with an introduction about Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Donald Trump claims that his success as a “self-made” businessman and real estate developer proves that he will make an effective president, but this devastating investigative account by legendary reporter Wayne Barrett proves otherwise. Back in print for the first time in years, Barrett’s seminal book reveals how Trump put together the biggest deal of his life—Trump Tower—through manipulation and deceit; how he worked with questionable characters from the mafia and city politics; and how it all nearly came crashing down. Here is a vivid and inglorious portrait of the man who wants now to be the most powerful man in the world.
In Trump: The Greatest Show in the World—The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention, Barrett unravels the myth and reveals the truth behind the mogul’s wheelings and dealings. After decades covering him, few reporters know Trump as Barrett does. Instead of the canny businessman that Trump claims in his own books, Barrett explores how Trump exploited his father’s banking and political connections to finance and grease his first major deals. Barrett’s investigative biography takes us from the days of Donald’s lonely youth to his brash entry into the real estate market, and to the back room deals behind his New York, Atlantic City and Florida projects.
Most compellingly Barrett paints an intimate portrait of Trump himself, a man driven by bravado, obsessive self-regard, and an anxious ruthlessness to subdue his rivals and seduce anyone with the power to aid his empire. We see him head to head with an opponent as powerful as Pete Rozelle, ingratiating himself with the brooding governor on the Hudson, and fueling the Drexel engine driven by Michael Milken with hundreds of millions in fees—paid, ironically, by gaming companies to fend off Trump takeovers. We explore his complicated emotional and business relationship with his first wife, Ivana, and the use he planned to make of his mistress—and later, his second wife—Marla Maples as a “southern strategy” in his then contemplated presidential campaign. With interviews with scores of adversaries and former colleagues, we are given a privileged look at Trump the businessman in action—reckless as often as he is brilliant, reliant on threats as much as on charm, and ultimately a cautionary tale: is this the man we want to lead the world?
PRAISE FOR TRUMP:
“Trump is a withering portrait of the most self-mythologized and promoted businessman of our era, an exhaustively researched and long-overdue antidote to Trump’s own books. It is a penetrating portrait of the age that spawned him and the many who aided and abetted his rise. Trump seems destined to be the definitive account of how Trump got ahead and why he fell. It is a sad story, with important lessons for us all.” —James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Den of Thieves
“Donald Trump surprises us again. Wayne Barrett’s Trump is a fresh, detailed, and vivid account of the tangled connections of money, politics, and power in our times.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherRegan Arts.
- Publication dateApril 26, 2016
- File size1186 KB
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—Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
"Nobody has written as many informed and perceptive stories about Trump as investigative reporter Wayne Barrett."
—The National Memo
"Trump is a withering portrait of the most self-mythologized and promoted businessman of our era, an exhaustively researched and long-overdue antidote to Trump's own books."
— James B. Stewart, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Den of Thieves
"Donald Trump surprises us again. Wayne Barrett's Trump is a fresh, detailed, and vivid account of the tangled connections of money, politics, and power in our times."
— Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy
"[T]he gold standard account of Trump's first act in real estate and business."
—Dara Lind, Vox.com
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- ASIN : B01ECUXPIM
- Publisher : Regan Arts. (April 26, 2016)
- Publication date : April 26, 2016
- Language : English
- File size : 1186 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 651 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #447,320 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #624 in Biographies of Political Leaders
- #650 in Biographies of the Rich & Famous
- #1,812 in Rich & Famous Biographies
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The single phone in the room rang, & a curious Barrett answered. "This is Donald Trump. I heard you're writing a book about me!"
Barrett later wrote that Trump did have some sixth sense (& a la Oscar Levant, Trump evidently lacked the other five) of what any opposition to him was doing & often before they it did it. But as harsh & incisive as The Greatest Show is, unlike so many would-be biographers, Barrett was never sued by Trump; Trump only offered Barrett a better apartment. Trump just could not comprehend why Barrett would want to live in Brownsville Brooklyn.
The latter move turns out to be maybe the real "secret" to Trump's "success": Always try to co-opt the opposition. Barrett's book, first published in 1999, when Trump was jockeying for a pole position in the Reform Party, is replete with accounts of Trump doing just that: Co-opting the opposition. Which turned out to have few but always important occasions for success. Trump was incapable of the faintest effort to understand an opposition: He was completely lost in the stuffy world of Upper West Side Manhattan community activism.
Barrett's is the fullest fountain of info on Trump. & If his questionable early dealings & later extraordinary losses remain unknown or no longer matter to Trump opponents & supporters, we are left with this still-shining legacy: Trump "was child of the moment, with neither a respect for the past nor an instinct for the future. All he knew was what he needed right then."
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Accompagnando la vita impresariale di Trump, Barrett ci dice che Trump è uno spregiudicato, se non francamente immorale, uomo d'affari, che non arretra innanzi all'opportunità dele cattive compagnie e del litigio nei tribunali. Ha la forza terribile del prepotente focalizzato sui propri interessi e sulla propria vanità.
Terribile pensare che abbia il dito sul grilletto nucleare.






