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TRUMP: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

Wayne Barrett

The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention

Barrett's classic book is back in print for the first time in years, published by Regan Arts and with an introduction about Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump: The Greatest Show in the World—The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention, by legendary investigative journalist Wayne Barrett is an essential book to understanding Donald Trump as a businessman and leader—told through the story of the biggest deal of his life went down. Wayne Barrett had covered Trump for years -- he has been called “Trump's Boswell” -- and is by far, the most knowledgeable and informed source on the subject.

Donald Trump claims that his success as a “self-made” businessman and real estate developer proves that he will make an effective president, but this devastating investigative account by legendary reporter Wayne Barrett proves otherwise. Barrett's seminal book reveals how Trump put together the biggest deal of his life—Trump Tower—through manipulation and deceit; how he worked with questionable characters from the mafia and city politics; and how it all nearly came crashing down. Here is a vivid and inglorious portrait of the man who wants now to be the most powerful man in the world.

In Trump: The Greatest Show in the World—The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention, Barrett unravels the myth and reveals the truth behind the mogul's wheelings and dealings. After decades covering him, few reporters know Trump as Barrett does. Instead of the canny businessman that Trump claims in his own books, Barrett explores how Trump exploited his father's banking and political connections to finance and grease his first major deals. Most compellingly Barrett paints an intimate portrait of Trump himself, a man, as the world has now seen, driven by bravado, obsessive self-regard, and an anxious ruthlessness to subdue his rivals.
Wayne Barrett is an investigative reporter who's written about New York for more than four decades and did the first major pieces on Donald Trump in the 1970s. A senior editor at the Village Voice until 2010, he's also written for The Daily Beast, New York magazine, The Nation, and NY Daily News. His books include City for Sale, Rudy!: An Investigative Biography, and Grand Illusion, which collectively covered the Koch through the Giuliani administrations. The New York Times called him "the master of chronicling the underbelly of New York City politics.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/wayne-barrett-who-wrote-the-book-on-trump-is-still-reporting
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