Confidence man : : the Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Call Number: 973.933 Ha, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Politics / Haberman, Maggie
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Prologue -- The power of negative thinking -- Welcome to fear city -- Fifth Avenue frieze-out -- Blind to the beautiful mosaic -- On the way up -- On the way down -- Nice and complicated -- The America we deserve -- Asphalt survivor -- 140 characters -- Rising on a lie -- Make or break -- Many people are saying -- Stop the steal -- The sci-fi campaign -- No one smarter -- Why it's presidential -- Out like Flynn -- Executive time -- In the tank -- The greatest showman -- Taking a bullet -- Extreme action -- Party man -- Tougher than the rest -- One strike and you're out -- Acquitted -- Get healthy America -- Divide and conquer -- Tulsa -- Not one of the diers -- Trial by combat Epilogue.
"From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better. Now, demonstrating her majestic command of this story, Haberman reveals in full the depth of her understanding of the 45th president himself, and of what the Trump phenomenon means. Interviews with hundreds of sources and numerous interviews over the years with Trump himself portray a complicated and often contradictory historical figure. Capable of kindness but relying on casual cruelty as it suits his purposes. Pugnacious. Insecure. Lonely. Vindictive. Menacing. Smarter than his critics contend and colder and more calculating than his allies believe. A man who embedded himself in popular culture, galvanizing support for a run for high office that he began preliminary spadework for 30 years ago, to ultimately become a president who pushed American democracy to the brink. The through-line of Trump's life and his presidency is the enduring question of what is in it for him or what he needs to say to survive short increments of time in the pursuit of his own interests. Confidence Man is also, inevitably, about the world that produced such a singular character, giving rise to his career and becoming his first stage. It is also about a series of relentlessly transactional relationships. The ones that shaped him most were with girlfriends and wives, with Roy Cohn, with George Steinbrenner, with Mike Tyson and Don King and Roger Stone, with city and state politicians like Robert Morgenthau and Rudy Giuliani, with business partners, with prosecutors, with the media, and with the employees who toiled inside what they commonly called amongst themselves the "Trump Disorganization." That world informed the one that Trump tried to recreate while in the White House. All of Trump's behavior as President had echoes in what came before. In this revelatory and newsmaking book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of one of the most norms-shattering and consequential eras in American political history"-- Provided by publisher.

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Disappointed submitted by Beawest on February 27, 2023, 12:53pm I was disappointed while reading this 600 page book because the author was too kind to Mr Trump. I don't think it conveyed the damage to our country and the amount of blood he has on his hands over Covid. His con game over the American people succeeded because of many lies and his power of persuasion. It presents a good summary of his upbringing but not enough examples of the family dynamics of Trump and his sons and daughters. Because I read the daily NYT, there was not a lot of new, factual information of events during his presidency of which I was not aware. Instead I wanted confirmation of what he exclaimed when he found out a whistle blower had a recorded transcript of his call with the president of Ukraine, V. Zelenskyy. Was he worried that it and his subsequent impeachment could bring an end to his term? I wanted more in depth conversations he had with his staff other than one or two lines. There was no "smoking gun." Perhaps her current employment at The New York Times required her to keep a more neutral tone throughout the book.