Confidence Man
The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
(Sprache: Englisch)
The #1 New York Times bestseller.
“This is the book Trump fears most.” - Axios
“Will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.” - Joe Klein, The New York Times
"A uniquely illuminating...
“This is the book Trump fears most.” - Axios
“Will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.” - Joe Klein, The New York Times
"A uniquely illuminating...
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The #1 New York Times bestseller.“This is the book Trump fears most.” - Axios
“Will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.” - Joe Klein, The New York Times
"A uniquely illuminating portrait." - Sean Wilentz, The Washington Post
“[A] monumental look at Donald Trump and his presidency.” — David Shribman, Los Angeles Times
From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist, Confidence Man is a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that chronicles his life and its meaning from his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency.
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.
The through-line of Trump’s life and his presidency is the enduring question of what is in it for him or what he needs to say to survive short increments of time in the pursuit of his own interests.
Confidence Man is also, inevitably, about the world that produced such a singular character, giving rise to
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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 revelatory and newsmaking book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of one of the most norms-shattering and consequential eras in American political history.
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 revelatory and newsmaking book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of one of the most norms-shattering and consequential eras in American political history.
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Prologue"What do you need me to say?
It was May 5, 2016, two days after the Republican primary in Indiana. I sat in the back of a yellow taxicab as it rolled down Fifth Avenue, my computer open on my lap and a phone held to my ear.
The likely Republican nominee for president was on the other end of the call. I had reached out to his staff for comment about a fresh round of support he had received from David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard and onetime Louisiana politician, who had recently alleged that opposition to the Trump campaign came from Jewish extremists and Jewish supremacists. The Anti- Defamation League, as it did at other points during that campaign, called on the candidate to make unequivocally clear that he rejected Duke s statement.
Donald Trump greeted me and then cut quickly to his point. I m here with my two Jewish lawyers, he said, appearing to refer to David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt, both of whom handled matters for his company, the Trump Organization.
I have a statement. Are you ready? he asked. I waited, my fingers hovering over the keyboard. Antisemitism has no place in our society, which should be united, not divided, he said, as I typed his words. Then a pause. A pause that went on a beat too long.
That s it? I asked.
Another pause. Then Trump asked, What do you need me to say? Trump was notorious for seeking cues that would help him please his audience, but in this context, his uncertainty threw me. Knowing what to say to show you wanted to separate yourself from the nation s most famous white supremacist should not be hard. I reiterated what I had told his campaignaides, that I was seeking a response or reaction to Duke s antisemitic remarks about Jewish extremists ; Trump seemed to realize why his initial statement was deficient, and added that he totally disavows what Duke said. A few seconds later, we hung up.
What do you need me to say?
In some ways, it was the question that
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informed all Trump had done as a businessman, where success had made him a recurring character in New York City s tabloid newspapers. Young Donald Trump had been athletic as a teenager, and then aspired to a career in Hollywood. He ultimately fulfilled his father s desire for a successor in the family business: real estate. But what the son really always wanted was to be a star.
So that question guided Trump to cast himself as he preferred to be seen a take-charge billionaire in a leather-backed seat on the reality television show The Apprentice. He was usually selling, saying whatever he had to in order to survive life in ten-minute increments. He was also guided by a belief in repetition; over and over he would convey to employees and friends a version of the same idea: if you say something often enough, it becomes true. Together these instincts helped him to evade public and private danger over the course of nearly fifty years, and then became the foundation for his approach to politics, as a candidate and then a president and a former president.
Though some of his confidants held out hope that the weight of the presidency would change Trump, that was never a likely outcome. Over the years, those who got closest to him and chose to stay there often suggested they had been sucked in by a version best described as the Good Trump. The Good Trump was capable of generosity and kindness, throwing birthday parties for friends and checking on them repeatedly when they fell ill, calling the daughter of a political ally who was suffering from breast cancerfor a surprise chat from the White House. The Good Trump could be funny and fun to be around, solicitous and engaged, able to at least appear interested in the peo
So that question guided Trump to cast himself as he preferred to be seen a take-charge billionaire in a leather-backed seat on the reality television show The Apprentice. He was usually selling, saying whatever he had to in order to survive life in ten-minute increments. He was also guided by a belief in repetition; over and over he would convey to employees and friends a version of the same idea: if you say something often enough, it becomes true. Together these instincts helped him to evade public and private danger over the course of nearly fifty years, and then became the foundation for his approach to politics, as a candidate and then a president and a former president.
Though some of his confidants held out hope that the weight of the presidency would change Trump, that was never a likely outcome. Over the years, those who got closest to him and chose to stay there often suggested they had been sucked in by a version best described as the Good Trump. The Good Trump was capable of generosity and kindness, throwing birthday parties for friends and checking on them repeatedly when they fell ill, calling the daughter of a political ally who was suffering from breast cancerfor a surprise chat from the White House. The Good Trump could be funny and fun to be around, solicitous and engaged, able to at least appear interested in the peo
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Autoren-Porträt von Maggie Haberman
Maggie Haberman is a journalist who joined The New York Times in 2015 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on the investigations into Donald Trump’s, and his advisers’, connections to Russia. She has twice been a member of a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, in 2021 for reporting on the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus, and in 2022 for coverage related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol. Before joining The New York Times as a campaign correspondent, she worked as a political reporter at Politico, from 2010 to 2015. She previously worked at The New York Post and The New York Daily News.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Maggie Haberman
- 2022, Internationale Ausgabe, 608 Seiten, Masse: 15,5 x 23,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593653009
- ISBN-13: 9780593653005
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
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Confidence Man [is] Maggie Haberman s much anticipated biography of the president she followed more assiduously than any other journalist. No doubt, there are revelations aplenty here. But this is a book more notable for the quality of its observations about Trump s character than for its newsbreaks. It will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come. Joe Klein, The New York TimesA uniquely illuminating portrait...Haberman s contribution in Confidence Man [is] much larger than its arresting anecdotes. Later generations of historians will puzzle over Trump s rise to national power. The best of them will have learned from Haberman s book that none of it would have been possible but for a social, cultural, political, media and moral breakdown that overtook New York beginning in the 1970s, a fiasco of trusted institutions that, having allowed the Trumpian virus to grow, failed at every step to contain its spread, then profited from, aided and even cheered its devastation." Sean Wilentz, The Washington Post
During the Trump presidency, Haberman of the New York Times established herself as the leading Trump-watcher managing to report unsparingly on the president, while maintaining a relationship with him. Here, she delivered the definitive biography of Trump and his improbable rise from real estate mogul and television personality to president. Her deep understanding of the New York of the 1970s and 1980s helps to explain what makes Trump tick. Financial Times
[A] monumental look at Donald Trump and his presidency . . . it may be first among equals. David Shribman, Los Angeles Times
Haberman, the New York Times Trump whisperer, delivers. [Confidence Man] is much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama. It is a political epic, tracing Donald Trump s journey from the streets of Queens to Manhattan s Upper East Side, from the White House
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to Mar-a-Lago, his Elba. The Guardian
Delivers eye-popping details about the Trump presidency. Terry Moran, Good Morning America
Maggie Haberman has become the chronicler-in-chief of the Donald Trump era. John Dickerson, CBS Sunday Morning
Haberman deploys a deep sense of Trump's origins and career, including his relationships with New York s mayors and powerful Democratic ward bosses such as Meade Esposito. Haberman helps us understand how his lifelong desire for stardom pushed him to bid for the presidency and how his unorthodox credentials and tactics enabled him to win. She has a witness eye for much that she relates. NPR.org
An origin story plus an inside-the-room blow-by-blow a book arguably only Haberman could have written. . . . It s been called the book Trump fears the most he s terrified, said one former aide and that s because Haberman is the reporter who knows him the best. Michael Kruse, POLITICO
Chockablock with fresh anecdotes and insights. Frank Bruni, The New York Times
Haberman stands out among journalists who have followed Mr. Trump . . . Haberman makes a particular contribution with [Confidence Man] by describing how the annealing interplay of politics and commerce in the New York of the 1970s and 1980s equipped Mr. Trump with the low expectations and cynical convictions that would carry him so far . . . Her devastating portrait of Mr. Trump s failure should give his imitators pause. The Economist
Maggie Haberman breaks more news than the rest of us. Jonathan Swan
Maggie Haberman gets all the information Jimmy Kimmel
No reporter has lived rent-free in Trump s head longer than Haberman. POLITICO Playbook
Haberman s book is chockablock with scoops . . . but what singles it out from the competition is its perceptiveness about Trump s character and the way his private vices became public menaces. Peter Conrad, The Guardian
With a masterly command of her subject, Haberman carefully weighs her sources and composes a highly readable, believable account of Trump from childhood through his petulant Mar-a-Lago exile. Shepherd Express
"The most comprehensive portrait of the 45th president to date, one that correctly diagnoses him as a malignant, world-historical narcissist and that will be read long after he alights from the proverbial couch. Air Mail
"Deeply reported and immersively told, this is an essential contribution." Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A damning portrait of narcissism, megalomania, and abject failure and the price the country is paying in the bargain." Kirkus Reviews
Delivers eye-popping details about the Trump presidency. Terry Moran, Good Morning America
Maggie Haberman has become the chronicler-in-chief of the Donald Trump era. John Dickerson, CBS Sunday Morning
Haberman deploys a deep sense of Trump's origins and career, including his relationships with New York s mayors and powerful Democratic ward bosses such as Meade Esposito. Haberman helps us understand how his lifelong desire for stardom pushed him to bid for the presidency and how his unorthodox credentials and tactics enabled him to win. She has a witness eye for much that she relates. NPR.org
An origin story plus an inside-the-room blow-by-blow a book arguably only Haberman could have written. . . . It s been called the book Trump fears the most he s terrified, said one former aide and that s because Haberman is the reporter who knows him the best. Michael Kruse, POLITICO
Chockablock with fresh anecdotes and insights. Frank Bruni, The New York Times
Haberman stands out among journalists who have followed Mr. Trump . . . Haberman makes a particular contribution with [Confidence Man] by describing how the annealing interplay of politics and commerce in the New York of the 1970s and 1980s equipped Mr. Trump with the low expectations and cynical convictions that would carry him so far . . . Her devastating portrait of Mr. Trump s failure should give his imitators pause. The Economist
Maggie Haberman breaks more news than the rest of us. Jonathan Swan
Maggie Haberman gets all the information Jimmy Kimmel
No reporter has lived rent-free in Trump s head longer than Haberman. POLITICO Playbook
Haberman s book is chockablock with scoops . . . but what singles it out from the competition is its perceptiveness about Trump s character and the way his private vices became public menaces. Peter Conrad, The Guardian
With a masterly command of her subject, Haberman carefully weighs her sources and composes a highly readable, believable account of Trump from childhood through his petulant Mar-a-Lago exile. Shepherd Express
"The most comprehensive portrait of the 45th president to date, one that correctly diagnoses him as a malignant, world-historical narcissist and that will be read long after he alights from the proverbial couch. Air Mail
"Deeply reported and immersively told, this is an essential contribution." Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A damning portrait of narcissism, megalomania, and abject failure and the price the country is paying in the bargain." Kirkus Reviews
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