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Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

Name: Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
Brand: Penguin Press
SKU: 9780593298640
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Contributors:

Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig

Publisher:

Penguin Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Biography & Autobiography, Political Science, True Crime

Book Subcategory:

Business, Corruption & Misconduct, Con Artists, Hoaxes & Deceptions

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Release Date:

9/17/2024

ISBN 13:

9780593298640

Weight:

1.72 lbs

Size:

9.55 x 6.40 x 1.60 inches

Pages:

528

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An Instant New York Times Bestseller - A Washington Post Notable Book - A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year

"A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read." -Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of 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 U.S. 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 multibillion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualiﬁed to lead the country. Except none of it was true. As his wealthy father's chosen successor, Trump received the equivalent today of more than $500 million in family money. He collected a second windfall thanks to Mark Burnett, the revolutionary television producer who made Trump a star. In truth, Trump's empire was underwritten, and at times saved, by the equivalent of more than $1 billion that came his way without any of the business expertise he claimed.

Drawing on more than 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 Trump's ﬁnancial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. 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 myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire, exposed.

About the Author
Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig are investigative reporters at the New York Times. Since 2016, their 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 Trump's tax returns. Their articles on Trump's inheritance were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2019. Buettner joined the Times as an investigative reporter in 2006. He was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. He previously worked on investigations teams at the Daily News in New York and New York Newsday. 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, Canada's national newspaper.

Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

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