Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Fathers Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success (Large Print)

Paperback

Main Details

Title Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Fathers Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success (Large Print)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Russ Buettner
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:800
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156
Category/GenreLarge Print
Trade Publishers Large Print
All Dates
September 2024 Release Titles
Biographies
ISBN/Barcode 9780593949252
Audience
General
Edition Large Print Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Trade Publishers Large Print
Imprint Random House Large Print
NZ Release Date 17 September 2024
Publication Country United States

Description

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-President Trump’s finances an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White House

Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life “has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.” Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat he argued made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except: None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever.

Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information including the tax returns he tried to conceal alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trumps financial rise and fall and rise and fall again. For decades he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building while taking out huge loans he’ll never repay. He obsesses over appearances while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant – the public image that will carry him to the White House.

A masterpiece of narrative reporting Lucky Loser is a meticulous nearly-century spanning narrative filled with scoops from Trump Tower Mar-a-Lago Atlantic City and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump’s tether to success and power is more precarious than ever 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.