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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER that connects the dots from Donald Trump's racist background to the Russian scandals
"A searing indictment." — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Johnston has given us this year's must-read Trump book." — Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
The international bestseller that brought Trump's long history of racism, mafia ties, and shady business dealings into the limelight. Now with a new introduction and epilogue.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who had spent thirty years chronicling Donald Trump for the New York Times and other leading newspapers, takes readers from the origins of the Trump family fortune—his grandfather's Yukon bordellos during the Gold Rush—to his tumultuous gambling and real estate dealings in New York and Atlantic City, all the way to his election as president of the United States, giving us a deeply researched and shockingly full picture of one of the most controversial figures of our time.
"A searing indictment." — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"Johnston has given us this year's must-read Trump book." — Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
The international bestseller that brought Trump's long history of racism, mafia ties, and shady business dealings into the limelight. Now with a new introduction and epilogue.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who had spent thirty years chronicling Donald Trump for the New York Times and other leading newspapers, takes readers from the origins of the Trump family fortune—his grandfather's Yukon bordellos during the Gold Rush—to his tumultuous gambling and real estate dealings in New York and Atlantic City, all the way to his election as president of the United States, giving us a deeply researched and shockingly full picture of one of the most controversial figures of our time.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781612196329 |
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Publisher: | Melville House Publishing |
Publication date: | 08/02/2016 |
Pages: | 288 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author

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 founded DCreport.org, a nonprofit news service that reports what the President and Congress do, not say. 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.
Table of Contents
Introduction ix
1 Family History 3
2 Family Values 9
3 Personal Values 21
4 A Sickly Child 27
5 Making Friends 33
6 Trump's Most Important Deals 41
7 "A Great Lawsuit" 51
8 Showing Mercy 59
9 Polish Brigade 69
10 Feelings and Net Worth 77
11 Government Rescues Trump 85
12 Golf and Taxes 95
13 Income Taxes 103
14 Empty Boxes 111
15 "Better Than Harvard" 117
16 Trump Charities 129
17 Imaginary Friends 135
18 Imaginary Lovers 139
19 Myth Maintenance 147
20 Collecting Honors 155
21 Who's That? 161
22 Down Mexico Way 167
23 Trump Beaches a Whale 177
24 Biggest Loser 193
Epilogue 205
Acknowledgments 219
Notes 223
Index 259
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