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    About Trump and Me

    Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.

    It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that prompted him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man “who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”

    In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject’s head as an enduring irritant—and how Singer (“A TOTAL LOSER!” according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump’s evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America’s standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art—a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality.

    About Trump and Me

    Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.

    It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that prompted him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man “who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”

    In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject’s head as an enduring irritant—and how Singer (“A TOTAL LOSER!” according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump’s evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America’s standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art—a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality.

    About Trump and Me

    Ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained id at the center of one of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.

    It was not always so. In 1996, longtime New Yorker writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed) recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that prompted him to inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself fascinated with this man “who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”

    In Trump and Me, Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged inside its subject’s head as an enduring irritant—and how Singer (“A TOTAL LOSER!” according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He reflects on Trump’s evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential threat to America’s standing as a rational guardian of the world order. Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate with his ultimate feat of performance art—a mass political movement only loosely tethered to reality.

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    About Mark Singer

    Mark Singer has been a staff writer at The New Yorkersince 1974. He is the author of Funny Money andSomewhere in America. He lives in New York City.**********Mark Singer escribe en The New Yorker desde 1974. Es autor de varios libros, entre los que destacan Somewhere… More about Mark Singer

    About Mark Singer

    Mark Singer has been a staff writer at The New Yorkersince 1974. He is the author of Funny Money andSomewhere in America. He lives in New York City.**********Mark Singer escribe en The New Yorker desde 1974. Es autor de varios libros, entre los que destacan Somewhere… More about Mark Singer

    About Mark Singer

    Mark Singer has been a staff writer at The New Yorkersince 1974. He is the author of Funny Money andSomewhere in America. He lives in New York City.**********Mark Singer escribe en The New Yorker desde 1974. Es autor de varios libros, entre los que destacan Somewhere… More about Mark Singer

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Domestic Politics

    Hardcover | $16.00
    Published by Tim Duggan Books
    Jul 05, 2016 | 112 Pages | 5 x 7 | ISBN 9780451498595

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Domestic Politics

    Ebook | $7.99
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    Jul 05, 2016 | 112 Pages | ISBN 9780451498601

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    Praise

    “The measure of Donald Trump. Never equalled.” —Lawrence Wright

    “Brilliant . . . amazingly relevant now.” —James Fallows

    “A hilariously scathing book.” —The Guardian

    “Remarkably prescient.” —The Chicago Tribune

    “A classic of the genre.” —VICE

    “Trump and Me offers clearer insight into the mind of the presumptive Republican nominee than any of the detailed biographies written over the years. . . . Singer is excellent at describing the disturbing strangeness of Trump’s existence.” —The Telegraph (UK)

    “Given Singer’s probing wit and Trump’s essential ridiculousness, Trump and Me is very funny. . . . It nails the narcissism, superficiality and cynicism with which the world is now so alarmingly familiar.” —The Guardian

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