âThis is the book Trump fears most.â - Axios
The instant #1 New York Times **bestseller. âThis is the book Trump fears most.â - Axios
Review
â Confidence Man [is] Maggie Habermanâs much anticipated biography of the president she followed more assiduously than any other journalist. No doubt, there are revelations aplenty here. But this is a book more notable for the quality of its observations about Trumpâs character than for its newsbreaks. It will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come.â âJoe Klein, The New York Times
"A uniquely illuminating portraitâŚHabermanâs contribution in Confidence Man [is] much larger than its arresting anecdotes. Later generations of historians will puzzle over Trumpâs rise to national power. The best of them will have learned from Habermanâs book that none of it would have been possible but for a social, cultural, political, media and moral breakdown that overtook New York beginning in the 1970s, a fiasco of trusted institutions that, having allowed the Trumpian virus to grow, failed at every step to contain its spread, then profited from, aided and even cheered its devastation." â Sean Wilentz, The Washington Post
â[A] monumental look at Donald Trump and his presidency . . . it may be first among equals.â â David Shribman , Los Angeles Times
âHaberman, the New York Times â Trump whisperer, delivers. [ Confidence Man ] is much more than 600 pages of context, scoop and drama. It is a political epic, tracing Donald Trumpâs journey from the streets of Queens to Manhattanâs Upper East Side, from the White House to Mar-a-Lago, his Elba.â âThe Guardian
âDelivers eye-popping details about the Trump presidency.â âTerry Moran, Good Morning America
âMaggie Haberman has become the chronicler-in-chief of the Donald Trump era.â âJohn Dickerson, CBS Sunday Morning
âHaberman deploys a deep sense of Trump's origins and career, including his relationships with New Yorkâs mayors and powerful Democratic ward bosses such as Meade Esposito. Haberman helps us understand how his lifelong desire for stardom pushed him to bid for the presidency and how his unorthodox credentials and tactics enabled him to win. She has a witnessâ eye for much that she relates.â âNPR.org
âAn origin story plus an inside-the-room blow-by-blowâa book arguably only Haberman could have written. . . . Itâs been called the book Trump fears the mostâheâs âterrified,â said one former aideâand thatâs because Haberman is the reporter who knows him the best.â âMichael Kruse, POLITICO
âChockablock with fresh anecdotes and insights.â âFrank Bruni, The New York Times
âHaberman stands out among journalists who have followed Mr. Trump . . . Haberman makes a particular contribution with [ Confidence Man ] by describing how the annealing interplay of politics and commerce in the New York of the 1970s and 1980s equipped Mr. Trump with the low expectations and cynical convictions that would carry him so far . . . Her devastating portrait of Mr. Trumpâs failure should give his imitators pause.â â The Economist
âMaggie Haberman breaks more news than the rest of us.â âJonathan Swan
âMaggie Haberman gets all the informationâ â Jimmy Kimmel
âNo reporter has lived rent-free in Trumpâs head longer than Haberman.â â POLITICO Playbook
âHabermanâs book is chockablock with scoops . . . but what singles it out from the competition is its perceptiveness about Trumpâs character and the way his private vices became public menaces.â âPeter Conrad, The Guardian
âWith a masterly command of her subject, Haberman carefully weighs her sources and composes a highly readable, believable account of Trump from childhood through his petulant Mar-a-Lago exile.â âShepherd Express
"The most comprehensive portrait of the 45th president to date, one that correctly diagnoses him as a malignant, world-historical narcissist and that will be read long after he alights from the proverbial couch.â âAir Mail
"Deeply reported and immersively told, this is an essential contribution." â Publishers Weekly , starred review
"A damning portrait of narcissism, megalomania, and abject failureâand the price the country is paying in the bargain." â Kirkus Reviews
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