The Making of Donald Trump
The Making of Donald Trump is a 2016 biography of the American businessman, property developer and politician Donald Trump by the American investigative journalist David Cay Johnston.
Johnston first met Trump as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer in June 1988 and likened him to P. T. Barnum. He subsequently reported on Trump for almost 30 years, and wrote the book in 27 days.[1] In an interview with The New York Times Johnston said that Trump had "...seriously damaged his brand" with his presidential campaign and would "follow him for the rest of his life". Johnston also felt that Trump was "masterful at understanding the conventions of journalism" and "remarkably agile at doing as he chooses and getting away with it".[1]
The book entered the New York Times hardcover nonfiction list in fifteenth position[1]
Description
The book consists of 24 chapters, with an introduction and an epilogue. The book details
Reception
David M. Shribman, writing for The Boston Globe, felt that the book was "a chronicle of mobsters and mistresses, shady construction deals and financial shenanigans, monumental projects and miserable (and possibly illegal) business practices" and that "Much of this slender volume's contents are already part of the public record; some of it is new". Shribman noted that the book focuses on Trump's personal and business life rather than his political career and that "More than a dozen Republican candidates and the entire Democratic Party have made the very same argument Johnston puts forward here. It is an important critique, yet an ignored one. Trump may, and probably does, have all these flaws. He also possesses perhaps the most important, and in some quarters surely the most appealing, message in this year of fear and discontent. The book that explains that is the one worth writing, and waiting for".[2]
The book was reviewed by Michael Russell for the
David J. Lynch reviewed the book for
Editions
- Johnston, David Cay (2016). The Making of Donald Trump. New York: ISBN 978-1-61219-632-9.
References
- ^ New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- Boston Globe. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- Herald Scotland. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ David J. Lynch (16 August 2016). "'The Making of Donald Trump' review — portrait shows he would be a disaster as president". Financial Times. Retrieved 23 August 2016.