![]() ![]() I was creating a character for this book that I knew was more appealing than he really was, a version of Trump that exaggerated his wins and never mentioned his shady methods. ![]() Over the year that I spent on The Art of the Deal, I felt a growing sense of despair and discomfort. In simple terms, it was a decision to sell out. But, still, I rationalized I told myself, he’s a real estate developer who just wants to promote himself, so this is harmless, and it can set me up financially to do good work. So, I had a sense of who Trump was and I knew this was a compromising decision. And the tactics he used were pretty awful, like breaking the elevators so people had to walk up many flights of stairs and not replacing the lights in the hallways and threatening to put homeless people in empty apartments. He wanted to get them out so he could convert it into a luxury condominium. ![]() It was about how Trump had harassed tenants living under rent control in a building he owned. I had great misgivings about Trump, whom I’d just written an article about for New York magazine in February 1985, called “The Cold War on Central Park South”. We were under financial pressure, and this was an opportunity to make a significant sum of money in a short amount of time. Tony Schwartz: I wrote The Art of the Deal because my second child was about to be born. Before we discuss your book choices, what was it like writing Donald Trump’s autobiography? The book was an instant bestseller, selling nearly a million copies on the first day of its release.Īll in all, if books on Donald Trump is a genre you enjoy, it’s a great time to be alive. With a PhD in clinical psychology, it’s little wonder that Mary Trump’s anecdotes and insights into her uncle’s character were taken seriously, at least by his detractors. A useful article on his relationship with the subject of his books, including Trump-important to bear in mind as you read the book-appears in this article, “How to Read a Woodward Book,” in the Atlantic.Īnother book to make headlines was an explosive book by Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. The latest (published September 15th) is Rage by Bob Woodward, the American investigative reporter of Watergate fame, who in recent decades has become a White House chronicler. Since we spoke with Trump co-author, Tony Schwartz, last year, a number of new books on Donald Trump have been published.
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