{"product_id":"9780593298640","title":"Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn Instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller \u003cb\u003e• A \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book \u003cb\u003e• \u003c\/b\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Business Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A first-rate financial thriller . . . \u003ci\u003eLucky Loser\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.” —Alexander Nazaryan, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e exposé of President Trump’s finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump’s wealth, revealing how one of the country’s biggest business failures lied his way into the White House\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon after announcing his first campaign for the U.S. 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 multibillion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly qualified to lead the country. Except none of it was true. As his wealthy father’s 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, Trump’s 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on more than 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig track Trump’s financial rise and fall, and rise and fall again. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, \u003ci\u003eLucky Loser\u003c\/i\u003e is a meticulous examination spanning nearly a century, filled with scoops from Trump Tower, Mar-a-Lago, Atlantic City, and the set of \u003ci\u003eThe Apprentice\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 myth of Trump, the self-made billionaire, exposed.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370459828285,"sku":"9780593298640","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780593298640_p0.jpg?v=1771573010","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780593298640","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}