The Apprentice's Bankruptcy: An Apologue

He never paid a debt in his life. Then he inherited a country.

Daniel Thorp bankrupts everything he touches-car dealerships, marriages, casinos, the truth. So when a failed salesman turned reality-TV strongman rises to become America's self-declared "president for life," the only real question is how long a nation can run on borrowed principle before the bill comes due.

Told as an apologue-a savage, uproarious moral fable-The Apprentice's Bankruptcy reimagines a democracy's slow-motion collap...