Trump: The Deals and the Downfall 9780060167042 No figure has come to symbolize the excesses of the 1980s as vividly or as powerfully as Donald Trump. As master builder, as media star, as bestselling author, as conspicuously wealthy consumer, Trump reigned--until his spectacular collapse--unchallenged as a unique new breed of entrepreneurial superstar, one who was as confidently victorious on television and the podium of an endless string of press conferences as he was in the boardrooms and bankers' offices where he waged his epic battles, For all of the media attention that has been devoted to him, though, what do we really know about Donald Trump, apart from what he has carefully contrived to foster the myth of a self-made financial genius, a man whose extravagance was merely a perquisite of success?
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