Trump Revealed

An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power

De: Michael Kranish, Marc Fisher

Narrado por: Campbell Scott

A comprehensive biography of Donald Trump, the Republican front runner in the presidential election campaign.

Trump Revealed is reported by a team of award-winning Washington Post journalists and coauthored by investigative political reporter Michael Kranish and senior editor Marc Fisher.

Trump Revealed offers the most thorough and wide-ranging examination of Donald Trump's public and private lives to date, from his upbringing in Queens and formative years at the New York Military Academy to his turbulent careers in real estate and entertainment to his astonishing rise as the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. The book is based on the investigative reporting of more than two dozen Post reporters and researchers who leverage their expertise in politics, business, legal affairs, sports, and other areas. The effort is guided by a team of editors headed by executive editor Martin Baron, who joined the newspaper in 2013 after his successful tenure running The Boston Globe, which included the Spotlight team's investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

©2016 WP Company LLC. (P)2016 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Excellent and Informative

This gave me an honest, well documented and articulate summary of a very complex personality. I now have the data required to justify supporting a different candidate.

Trump is too crazy & too close to the White House.

I am now convinced that Trump has some un-diagnosed and therefore untreated personality disorder. This book was great and covered some interesting real estate/casino stuff but I could only focus on Trump's odd reactions. I can't believe he is this close to the White House.

"The world is literally about to blow up." - Senator Lindesy Graham

very believable

aligns with facts as presented by other authors at different times. believabe, not a hit job. also syncs with behaviors witnessed throughout campaign.

Please listen to this book before you vote

I wish there were free copies of this book available for anyone who's considering NOT voting for Mrs. Clinton in November, because a vote for ANYONE else could result in a Trump presidency, and that would be a nightmare.

This book, which is extremely well documented, is based on interviews with Mr. Trump and others who know him, as well as exhaustive research and past articles by the Washington Post and others. As far as I know, Mr. Trump has not challenged the facts in this book. Apparently his comment when it was released a few weeks ago was only: "Don't buy it: boring." Even though it is clearly not a supportive book, it's not all negative either. He's not the devil incarnate, just a businessman who inflates his abilities (and probably his wealth) who should never hold the reins of our country.

Trump is so clearly self-centered, greedy and narcissistic, he certainly isn't qualified for any public office. The man is NOT a servant; he's entirely self-serving.

At the end, I felt some compassion for him, because I think he really WANTS to be a man of the people - but he never will be. He's NOT like us! His supporters are behind him because they think he can DO something for them. He's like the rich kid in high school that no one really likes, but pretend to because he's got stuff they want. What happens when they find out he CAN'T make them rich? He said himself to the authors that he really doesn't HAVE any friends, just his family. I find that very sad - and very dangerous. Our president needs to be respected and LIKED to succeed at domestic and foreign affairs. The oval office is a dangerous place for a thin-skinned twitter-head who always NEEDS to prove that he's right.

Remember Mitt Romney telling his supporters they were not the "haves and the have-nots" but the "haves and the soon-to-haves"? I am afraid that's what Trump's followers also believe. And maybe he's not as rich as he says, but that's the attribute he values and guards most jealously. The authors clearly understood his net worth is the ONE thing that he never allows anyone to challenge. Because he knows that aside from his name and money, he's just an empty suit. That is if an empty suit can vilify people as he does. His supporters think/hope/believe he can transfer his wealth-producing abilities to the nation, but they forget that what wealth he does have was produced to the detriment of many, through lies, cheating, lawsuits, and bankruptcies (and yes, there were SIX, not FOUR, as he claims - as if that makes it less egregious. That's made clear by this book).

Think about the values we try to instill in our children. Does he demonstrate any of them? He's a liar, a racist, a misogynist, a loose cannon, a whiner, and probably not as good at creating wealth as he claims.

Please know the man before he ends up in the white house. Who knows how long - if ever - it would take us to recover.

We ARE a great nation: crime is down and prosperity is starting to rise. We have always BEEN a great nation, though we've done plenty of not-so-great things. Hopefully we will become a greater nation over time, as we could if we all became more generous, considerate and ethical. To admire and potentially elect Donald Trump can only make us less great.

Revealing indeed!

I honestly never followed Trump nor have I ever seen an episode of "The Apprentice", so I learned a great deal about the Donald through this biography. Very revealing!

balanced portrayal

Would you consider the audio edition of Trump Revealed to be better than the print version?

have no idea

What did you like best about this story?

its breadth and psychological insight and the balance between the emotional discharges and shrewed intellect

Have you listened to any of Campbell Scott’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

same

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

no

Any additional comments?

getting to know Trump without prejudice is important no matter ones politics and this is a good place

Interesting to hear Trump’s life timeline, unfortunate Wash Post author interjected so much negative and opinions.

So used to it that could still learn and enjoy and tone out the unnecessary bias.
Will continue to search for a neutral biography, as this one had some great moments, however also had some cringeworthy times that you could feel the authors dislike coming through. Like him or hate him, he has become a historical figure that deserves academic research (which this had) but also deserves non partisan respect (which at times this didn’t have)

Riveting book that will polarize readers

You forget you're reading about a presidential candidate. This book reads like an engrossing biography of a business mogul in the vein of Rockefeller or Jobs. Men who embodied the American archetype of the maverick entrepreneur. Complicated men with difficult personalities and big ambitions.

But the comparison ends there.

A group of Washington Post reporters assembled this book in record time. And unlike another reviewer, I marveled at how seamlessly the pieces fit together--except where the chronology backtracks to follow some new thread of inquiry.

This book is going to polarize readers. If you like Trump, you will find the candidate's family history, business deals and branding savvy informative. But you'll flinch at the way the authors' choose to tell the stories of Trump's life, which are on the whole unflattering.

Still, those readers opposed to candidate Trump might be surprised (or not) that these reporters from a decidedly liberal-leaning newspaper have reined in their narrative. Unlike what is turning out to be the usual run of anti-Trump and anti-Hillary Clinton books, this biography doesn't call out what the authors' perceive as Trump's character flaws in ALL CAPS and exclamation points.

The reporters haven woven an absorbing biography. The preface places Trump in the months leading up to his candidacy. Chapter one offers standard biography fare, with backstories on the grandparents and parents.

Father Fred Trump's real estate dealings and allegations of racist rental policies are teased out. There are stories of Trump as a pranksterish youth and as a young man of means desperate to throw off his father's business and set off on his own terms. Trump comes off as a supremely confident and monomaniacal figure obsessed with deal making (big surprise there), real estate and himself. The Marla Maples affair gets ink. We get some insight into the real estate projects in New York, Atlantic City, Panama, Scotland, etc.

Other topics: Miss Universe pageant, the reality TV show, television cameo roles, bankruptcies, net worth, history with the Clintons, flip-flopping party affiliation, appeal to the masses, evolving political platform, the Trump brand, the 2016 Republican primaries and Republican National Convention.

The book touches on the major plot points in Trump's life and uses them to build a picture of Trump as a man, businessman--and potential candidate. Along the way, the authors try to answer why Trump the presidential candidate is so alluring to certain voters and equally horrifying to others.

Rise and Fall of the American Reich

Anyone who thinks Trump is just a blue collar American boy needs to read/listen to this book. He is a truly frightening man who panders to the middle class fears. Whatever he says, even if it is false, he refuses to recant but just says it over and over again until he believes it's true and convinces others, by the mere repetition on national news, that it is true.

America is truly facing a real test as to our values, our ethics and what made this nation great in the first place. We need to all educate ourselves as to who we would elect to lead us. In this day and age and with the information provided to us we will not have, even the historically questioned flimsy excuse of the German people after World War II, to say that we didn't know.

An unexpectedly balanced glimpse into the head of a mogul-politician

I expected this to be a hit-piece. It wasn't. It gives great insight into the mind of Trump and everything that makes him tick.