03087cam a2200325 i 4500 605443579 TxAuBib 20221021120000.0 220613s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022027210 9780593297346 HRD 32.00 0593297342 HRD 32.00 TxAuBib rda Haberman, Maggie, author Confidence man. Confidence man [BOOK] : the making of Donald Trump and the breaking of America / Maggie Haberman. New York : Penguin Press, 2022. 597 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better. Now, demonstrating her majestic command of this story, Haberman reveals in full the depth of her understanding of the 45th president himself, and of what the Trump phenomenon means. Interviews with hundreds of sources and numerous interviews over the years with Trump himself portray a complicated and often contradictory historical figure. Capable of kindness but relying on casual cruelty as it suits his purposes. Pugnacious. Insecure. Lonely. Vindictive. Menacing. Smarter than his critics contend and colder and more calculating than his allies believe. A man who embedded himself in popular culture, galvanizing support for a run for high office that he began preliminary spadework for 30 years ago, to ultimately become a president who pushed American democracy to the brink. Confidence Man is also, inevitably, about the world that produced such a singular character, giving rise to his career and becoming his first stage. It is also about a series of relentlessly transactional relationships. The ones that shaped him most were with girlfriends and wives, with Roy Cohn, with George Steinbrenner, with Mike Tyson and Don King and Roger Stone, with city and state politicians like Robert Morgenthau and Rudy Giuliani, with business partners, with prosecutors, with the media, and with the employees who toiled inside what they commonly called amongst themselves the “Trump Disorganization.” That world informed the one that Trump tried to recreate while in the White House. All of Trump’s behavior as President had echoes in what came before. In this book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. Provided by publisher. 20230103. Trump, Donald 1946- Trump, Donald 1946- Friends and associates. Trump Organization (New York, N.Y.) Presidents United States Biography. Businesspeople United States Biography. United States Politics and government 2009-2017.