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Collection: Good Reading
Call Number: 973.9
Author: Haberman, Maggie
Title: Confidence man
Remainder of title: the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America /
Summary, etc. note: "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"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780593297353
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Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780593297346
Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780593653005
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us---
Geographic area code: n-us-ny
Classification number: E913
Edition number: 23/eng/20220613
Classification number: 973.933092
Relator term: author.
Statement of responsibility, etc.: Maggie Haberman.
Place of publication: New York , NY
Name of publisher: Pengquin Random House,LLC
Date of publication: 2022
Projected publication date: 2210
: New York :
: Penguin Press,
: 2022.
Extent: 508 pages
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted contents note: 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.
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Source of acquisition: Donated by Maggie Caron
Purchase price: 16.93
: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Personal name: Trump, Donald,
Personal name: Trump, Donald,
Dates associated with a name: 1946-
Dates associated with a name: 1946-
General subdivision: Friends and associates.
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Trump Organization (New York, N.Y.)
Subject: Presidents-US
Subject: Businesspeople
Form subdivision: Biography.
Form subdivision: Biography.
Geographic subdivision: United States
Geographic subdivision: United States
Geographic name: United States
General subdivision: Politics and government
Chronological subdivision: 2009-2017.
Main entry heading: Haberman, Maggie.
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : Penguin Press, 2022
Display text: Print version:
Title: Confidence man
Record control number: (DLC) 2022027210
International Standard Book Number: 9780593297346
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: 2022-06-23

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