{ "item_title" : "Confidence Man - The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America", "item_author" : [" Maggie Haberman "], "item_description" : "From the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that moves beyond simplistic caricature, chronicling his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and his potential comeback.Few journalists have covered Donald Trump longer and at greater length than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better. As the former President himself put it, “She’s like my psychiatrist.” Now the depth of her understanding of the 45th president, the Trump phenomenon and its meaning, and her majestic command of it in storytelling terms, is revealed in full. 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 than his allies believe. A man who cynically and cleverly embedded himself in the popular culture, galvanizing support for a run for high office that he began the spadework for 30 years ago. The through-line of Trump’s life and his presidency is the enduring question of what is in it for him or, as he once put it to Haberman, “What do you need me to say?” Few lines have been left uncrossed in the pursuit of his own interests. Based on conversations with hundreds of sources and numerous interviews over the years with Trump himself, Confidence Man is also, inevitably, about the family that produced such a singular character, and the city, New York, that gave rise to his career and became his stage. It is also about a series of relentlessly transactional relationships—with his girlfriends and wives, with Roy Cohn, with George Steinbrenner, with Mike Tyson and Don King and Roger Stone, with city and state politicians, with business partners, with prosecutors, with the media, and with the sorts of employees who endured working inside what they commonly called “the Trump Disorganization.” 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 bizarre and consequential eras in American political history. Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent who joined The Times in 2015 and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on Donald Trump’s advisers and their connections to Russia. She was part of a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for reporting on the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus. Before joining The Times as a campaign correspondent, Ms. Haberman 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. She was a finalist for the Mirror Awards for co-authoring the 2014 profile What Is Hillary Clinton Afraid Of? Her hobbies include singing, and she is married with three children.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/59/329/734/0593297342_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "30.00", "online_price" : "30.00", "our_price" : "30.00", "club_price" : "30.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "32.00" } }

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