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An Instant New York Times Bestseller ā¢ A Washington Post Notable Book ā¢ A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year
āA first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.ā āAlexander Nazaryan, The New York Times
From the Pulitzer Prizeāwinning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposĆ© of President Trumpās finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trumpās wealth, revealing how one of the countryās biggest business failures lied his way into the White House
Soon after announcing his ļ¬rst campaign for the U.S. presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life āhas not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.ā 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 qualiļ¬ed to lead the country. Except none of it was true. As his wealthy fatherās 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, Trumpās 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 yearsā worth of Trumpās conļ¬dential 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 Trumpās ļ¬nancial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, ļ¬lled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. Here for the ļ¬rst time is the deļ¬nitive true accounting of Trump and his moneyāwhat he had, what he lost, and what he has leftāand the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire, exposed.