06032cam a2200685 i 4500 23919521 BJBSDDR 20260727145506.0 ta 241112s2025 nyuaf b 001 0beng 2024404746 9780593298664 (paperback) 0593298667 (paperback) 23919521 DLC eng rda DLC DLC eng pcc 002 E 913.3 T871B 2025 973.933092 Buettner, Russ 48206 Lucky loser : how Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success / Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig. How Donald Trump squandered his father's fortune and created the illusion of success New York : Penguin Books, 2025 519 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Part I: The father. A natural virgin market -- The American way of life -- They just went wild -- In his father's sights -- Toy soldier academy -- March the line -- It's all over now -- All show -- Part II: The son. By no means standing still -- Shadowboxing -- Whatever the Trumps want -- Everything he touches -- The latest jewel -- Mr. Baron's tower -- So much hoopla -- Part III: The everything man. Almost rational -- Risk and reward -- All of life is a stage -- Entertainer-impresario -- Campaign of truth -- White elephants -- Wildest expectations -- No intention to ask -- The spy next door -- Always there for me -- Part IV: Dramality. The producer -- "I used my brain" -- The talent -- The danger of overcommercialization -- Better than real estate -- Real estate -- Don't do this for the money. "Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US 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 multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. None of it was true. Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over 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. For decades, he squanders his fortunes on money losing businesses, only to be saved yet again by financial serendipity. He tacks his name above the door of every building, while taking out huge loans he'll never repay. He obsesses over appearances, while ignoring threats to the bottom line and mounting costly lawsuits against city officials. He tarnishes the value of his name by allowing anyone with a big enough check to use it, and cheats the television producer who not only rescues him from bankruptcy but casts him as a business savant--the public image that will carry him to the White House. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Lucky Loser is a meticulous, nearly-century spanning narrative, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of The Apprentice. At a moment when Trump's tether to success and power is more precarious than ever, 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 final word on the myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire"-- Jacket page [ii]. 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