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Loading... Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America (edition 2022)by Maggie Haberman (Author)
Work InformationConfidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America by Maggie Haberman
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. A comprehensive account of the life and presidency of Donald John Trump by New York Times reporter, Maggie Haberman. (  ) MrDickie | Feb 14, 2023 |  Maggie Haberman was arguably Donald Trump’s favorite reporter. He identified with her as another hard-boiled New Yorker and also as a representative of the New York Times, the paper he most wanted to respect him. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and covering his events, Haberman draws what may be the most complete psychological portrait of this country’s 45th President. This was a hard book to put down. (  ) etxgardener | Feb 3, 2023 | Very impressive. I’m glad I read it! (  ) cygnet81 | Jan 29, 2023 | I was hoping that this book would give me some fresh insight into the malignancy that is Donald Trump, and it does, at least in the first portion which deals with his childhood and life before he wins the Presidency in 2016. Once he's in the White House, however, it's basically a rehash of what I've read in many other books. So, while Maggie Haberman may be one of the premier reporters with knowledge of Trump, there's only so much she can do with material that's been presented to us numerous times already. ( ) flourgirl49 | Jan 17, 2023 | Maggie Haberman has definitely had an inside track with Trump for many years and she definitely knows how to write in an engaging fashion. However, I waited for a long time with a library reserve and when I finally had this book in my hands....I read a few pages and realized I just could not stand to read another word about this man...why do I need to read anything MORE about his horrible behavior that started when he was a child? He is not worth anyone's attention. I returned the book to the library. Let someone else suffer through his history. ( ) nyiper | Jan 7, 2023 |
 Later generations of historians will puzzle over Trump’s rise to national power. The best of them will have learned from Haberman’s book that none of it would have been possible but for a social, cultural, political, media and moral breakdown that overtook New York beginning in the 1970s, a fiasco of trusted institutions that, having allowed the Trumpian virus to grow, failed at every step to contain its spread, then profited from, aided and even cheered its devastation. Maggie Haberman, the New York Times’ Trump whisperer, delivers. Her latest book is much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama. It is a political epic, tracing Donald Trump’s journey from the streets of Queens to Manhattan’s Upper East Side, from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, his Elba. There, the 45th president holds court – and broods and plots his return. No doubt, there are revelations aplenty here. But this is a book more notable for the quality of its observations about Trump’s character than for its newsbreaks. It will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.
"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"-- No library descriptions found. |
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