{"product_id":"the-making-of-donald-trump-isbn-9781612196879","title":"The Making of Donald Trump","description":"\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eBESTSELLER that connects the dots from Donald Trump's racist background to the Russian scandals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A searing indictment.\" — Michiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Johnston has given us this year's must-read Trump book.\" — Lawrence O'Donnell, host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe international bestseller that brought Trump's long history of racism, mafia ties, and shady business dealings into the limelight. \u003cb\u003eNow with a new introduction and epilogue.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003ePulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who had spent thirty years chronicling Donald Trump for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and other leading newspapers, takes readers from the origins of the Trump family fortune—his grandfather's Yukon bordellos during the Gold Rush—to his tumultuous gambling and real estate dealings in New York and Atlantic City, all the way to his election as president of the United States, giving us a deeply researched and shockingly full picture of one of the most controversial figures of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e”Provides useful, vigorously reported overviews of Mr. Trump’s life and career ... Mr.  Johnston, who has followed the real estate impresario for nearly three  decades, offers a searing indictment of his business practices and  creative accounting.\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”David Cay Johnston has given us this year’s must-read Trump book.\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eLawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC’s The Last Word\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e”Johnston devastatingly covers ground he broke open as a reporter on the Trump beat in Philadelphia and at \u003ci\u003eThe New York Time\u003c\/i\u003es...The best of investigative reporting is brought to bear”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eUSA TODAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e”David Cay Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times   investigative reporter, gives Trump the thorough scrubbing he   deserves...Johnston has done voters a service with this unblinking   portrait. He makes a compelling case that Trump has the attributes of   both 'dictator' and 'deceiver'”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e”Carefully fleshes out the details of Trump's known biography...with solid documentation.\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTAMPA BAY TIMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Johnston's case is unassailable and eye-opening.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTHE NATION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”A devastating attack on the Republican presidential  nominee....[Johnston] carefully disentangles the knot of lies that has  so far characterised Trump’s presidential campaign.\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE INDEPENDENT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e”Johnston…maintains a crisply matter-of-fact approach throughout this scrupulously detailed and documented chronicle.”—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOOKLIST\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eDAVID  CAY JOHNSTON is an investigative journalist and winner of a 2001  Pulitzer Prize for journalism. A long-time reporter for the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the former president of the Investigative Reporters \u0026amp; Editors (IRE), he founded DCreport.org, a nonprofit news service that reports what the President and Congress do, not say\u003cb\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003eHe is also the author of several \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestsellers, including \u003ci\u003ePerfectly Legal and Free Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e.  He has won the IRE Medal and a George Polk Award for his investigative  reporting, and is a columnist for The Daily Beast, National Memo and USA TODAY. 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