- Published: 24 September 2024
- ISBN: 9781847928245
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 528
- RRP: $40.00
Lucky Loser
How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success
- Published: 24 September 2024
- ISBN: 9781847928245
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 528
- RRP: $40.00
A first-rate financial thriller ... one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read ... A multi-generational saga
New York Times
Meticulously documented ... Buettner and Craig have such a trove of documents, they are able to prove, in incontrovertible detail, the reality under the hype that is Donald Trump ... This is a page turner, with spectacular anecdotes
Washington Post
Shows that the popular caricature of Trump as a canny real estate titan - one painstakingly crafted by him, and by television producers - is more fact than fiction. ... With scalpel-like precision, [Buettner and Craig] paint a detailed portrait of just how much Trump was given to set him up for success in business, and the hundreds of millions of his father's money he squandered on bad deals ... Damning
Sunday Times
A page-turner ... Buettner and Craig delve more deeply into this story than anyone I've encountered
Guardian
Groundbreaking reporting ... comprehensive, persuasive, and packed with damning anecdotes
The New Yorker
Strikes at the heart of the Trump myth
Financial Times
I can’t emphasise this enough: Lucky Loser is a gripping, page-turning read, devastating in its meticulousness and thrilling in its narrative. If the devil is in the detail, this book is as close to Satan’s origin story as we’re ever going to get
Emma Brockes, Guardian
Buettner and Craig are relentless in picking apart every Trump misstatement … the pattern becomes clear … Lucky Loser shows us that Trump’s self-invention was largely based on lies
Literary Review
An expansive account of the New York Times reporters’ award-winning investigation into Trump’s finances
Financial Times, *Books of the Year*