Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Il

Description: Lucky Loser by Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig A masterpiece of narrative reporting and an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trumps wealth, from two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters - revealing how a man once thought to be too rich to fail became the biggest loser of all.Lucky Loser is an explosive investigation into the history of Trumps wealth, drawing on over twenty years worth of Trumps confidential tax information, business records and interviews with Trump insiders.Soon after announcing his first campaign for the U.S. presidency, Donald J. Trump declared that life \"has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.\" Building on a decades-old narrative, he spun a fable of how he turned a small loan from his father into a multibillion-dollar empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except none of it was true. Born to a rich father, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today.The story of Trumps finances is one of a rise and fall, and another rise and fall, as he squanders fortunes on money-losing businesses, only to be saved by blind luck. He tacks his name above the door of every building while taking out huge loans hell never repay. He obsesses over appearances while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it. He makes side deals to cut out the television producer who not only res-cued him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business guru - the public image that will carry him to the White House.A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. Here for the first time is the definitive true accounting of Trump and his money - what he had, what he lost, and what he has left - and the final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Russ Buettner (Author)Russ Buettner is an investigative reporter at the New York Times. Since 2016, his reporting has focused on the personal finances of Donald J. Trump, including in-depth articles with Susanne Craig and other Times reporters that revealed the fortune Trump inherited from his father and the record of business failures hidden in twenty years of Trumps tax returns. Those articles were awarded a Pulitzer Prize and two George Polk awards. Buettner, who joined the Times in 2006, was also a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for articles with Danny Hakim highlighting abuse and neglect in New Yorks care of developmentally disabled people. He previously worked on investigations teams at the Daily News in New York and New York Newsday.Susanne Craig (Author)Susanne Craig is an investigative reporter at the New York Times. Since 2016, her reporting has focused on the personal finances of Donald J. Trump, including in-depth articles that revealed the fortune Trump inherited from his father and the record of business failures hidden in twenty years of Trumps tax returns. Those articles were awarded a Pulitzer Prize and two George Polk awards. Craig previously covered Wall Street and served as Albany bureau chief for the Times. Prior to joining the Times in 2010, Craig was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal and The Globe and Mail, Canadas national newspaper. She is a member of the Order of Canada and serves as an on-air analyst for MSNBC. Review A first-rate financial thriller ... one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read ... A multi-generational saga * New York Times *Meticulously documented ... Buettner and Craig have such a trove of documents, they are able to prove, in incontrovertible detail, the reality under the hype that is Donald Trump ... This is a page turner, with spectacular anecdotes * Washington Post *Shows that the popular caricature of Trump as a canny real estate titan - one painstakingly crafted by him, and by television producers - is more fact than fiction. ... With scalpel-like precision, [Buettner and Craig] paint a detailed portrait of just how much Trump was given to set him up for success in business, and the hundreds of millions of his fathers money he squandered on bad deals ... Damning * Sunday Times *A page-turner ... Buettner and Craig delve more deeply into this story than anyone Ive encountered * Guardian *Groundbreaking reporting ... comprehensive, persuasive, and packed with damning anecdotes * The New Yorker *Strikes at the heart of the Trump myth * Financial Times *I cant emphasise this enough: Lucky Loser is a gripping, page-turning read, devastating in its meticulousness and thrilling in its narrative. If the devil is in the detail, this book is as close to Satans origin story as were ever going to get -- Emma Brockes * Guardian *Buettner and Craig are relentless in picking apart every Trump misstatement … the pattern becomes clear … Lucky Loser shows us that Trumps self-invention was largely based on lies * Literary Review *An expansive account of the New York Times reporters award-winning investigation into Trumps finances * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* * Details ISBN1847928234 Author Susanne Craig Publisher Vintage Publishing Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781847928238 Format Hardcover Imprint The Bodley Head Ltd Subtitle How Donald Trump Squandered His Fathers Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781847928245 Audience General ISBN-10 1847928234 Pages 528 Publication Date 2024-09-19 UK Release Date 2024-09-19 DEWEY 973.93092 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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