Confidence Man
About This Book
Maggie Haberman has reported on Donald Trump for longer and in more depth than almost any other journalist working today. Confidence Man is her biography of the man who became the forty-fifth and later the forty-seventh president, drawn from her years covering him and from the understanding she built along the way. The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, who also co-wrote Regime Change, brings that long familiarity to a book that treats Trump as a figure and Trumpism as a phenomenon. The portrait rests on interviews with hundreds of sources, Trump among them, and it refuses easy labels. The man who emerges can be kind yet depends on casual cruelty. He is combative, insecure, lonely and menacing, sharper than his detractors admit and colder and more calculating than his supporters imagine. His road to the presidency began three decades before he took office, and he went on to push American democracy to the edge. Haberman also looks at the world that formed him. The New York of the 1970s and 1980s, with its deal-making, tabloid appetite and rough social codes, shaped how Trump rose, and she traces how that setting left its mark. Through his life she finds the same threads again and again: relationships built on transaction, a fierce instinct for survival, and a fixation on loyalty. These, she argues, still guide him today. This edition includes a reckoning with the 2024 election. Combining biography with news-breaking reporting, the book offers a detailed account of one of the most consequential periods in American political life.
ISBN: 9780593297360
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