false 14839 0 0 26441 0380707527 9780380707522 3 <![CDATA[Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1260714452m/26441.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26441.Almost_Golden_Jessica_Savitch_and_the_Selling_of_Television_News 3.67 15 14839 3.37 30 6 5124641 067163285X 9780671632854 1 <![CDATA[Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5124641.Almost_Golden_Jessica_Savitch_and_the_Selling_of_Television_News 3.00 8 14839 3.37 30 6 2982288 0684808498 9780684808499 1 <![CDATA[The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2982288.The_Trumps_Three_Generations_That_Built_an_Empire 3.20 5 Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News, journalist Gwenda Blair examines a historical trend through an individual story--or in this case, three--profiling a trio of very different men who happened to be grandfather, father, and son. Friedrich Trump (1869-1918), a German-born barber who got rich providing lodging, food, and female companionship to Klondike gold miners, founded the family real estate empire in Queens, New York. Fred Trump (1905-99) took advantage of new government programs to build affordable urban housing and make lots of money for himself. Donald, born in 1946, was just as interested in being famous as in being wealthy. His first big coup, the Grand Hyatt hotel, opened in 1980, launching a decade of extravagant acquisitions (including two Atlantic City casinos and the Plaza Hotel) that made "the Donald" a byword for '80s excess. Blair conscientiously covers Donald's flamboyant personal life, from the womanizing through the stormy marriage to Ivana and the notorious romance with Marla Maples. Her sometimes portentous prose suits the pumped-up style of the man who promoted his projects by promoting himself with everything from a ghostwritten autobiography, The Art of the Deal, to a board game bearing his name. But the author's main interest, and her book's principal fascination, lies in tracing the evolution of American real estate development over the course of the 20th century, as bare-knuckled individual entrepreneurship gave way to business in partnership with government, which was in turn replaced by high-stakes financial manipulation using image to shape reality. Blair may well be right when she claims that the Trumps' saga constitutes "a singular history of American capitalism itself." --Wendy Smith ]]> 14839 3.37 30 6 2113873 0399209530 9780399209536 0 <![CDATA[Laura Ingalls Wilder]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2113873.Laura_Ingalls_Wilder 3.00 1 14839 3.37 30 6 7118393 0641793472 9780641793479 0 <![CDATA[Donald Trump]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7118393-donald-trump 0.0 0 14839 3.37 30 6 5703368 0756774381 9780756774387 0 <![CDATA[Trumps: Three Generations That Built An Empire]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5703368.Trumps_Three_Generations_That_Built_An_Empire 0.0 0 Donald Trump, the canny deal maker and crowd pleaser, is the third generation of an entrepreneurial family whose turbulent history and extraordinary achievements reflect the transformation of America from a land of scrabbling immigrant survivors to our brand-name era.

Donald's German immigrant grandfather Friedrich came to America with one suitcase and limitless faith in his gut instincts. A hotel and saloon keeper who provided miners with shelter and female companionship during the Klondike gold rush, he later opened a storefront real estate operation in Queens, New York.

Fred, Friedrich's eldest son, started building houses for neighbors while he was still in high school and was among the first to realize that the New Deal would become America's new gold rush. Using government housing subsidies and loopholes, Fred constructed thousands of new homes in Brooklyn and Queens, made a fortune, and provided start-up capital for his second son, Donald.

Donald, determined to pursue a career on a larger, and ultimately all-encompassing, stage, set his sights on Manhattan. It was then in a slump. Sensing the beginning of another golden age, the young developer began positioning himself to take advantage of it. His most important asset during what would turn into the go-go years of the 1980s and the economic bonanza that followed in the 1990s was his insight that, this time, fame itself would be the road to fortune. Donald had already learned from his father how to be a real estate developer. Now, endowed with a talent for extravagant exaggeration, he would become a world-famous developer. Feuds, divorces, sexual boasts, presidential bids, billion-dollar triumphs, billion-dollar disasters -- Donald Trump's roller-coaster life would become one of the most remarkable, and remarkably well-publicized, in the nation. He would be among the most renowned, reviled, and envied figures of his time. Such a route is not new in America. But what distinguishes Donald Trump is his understanding that being famous for being rich could make him even richer.

Donald Trump would provide an intriguing, infuriating, and unforgettable model for the biggest gold rush of them all, the new virtual economy in which the appearance of enormous success has come to play such a dominant role.

]]> 14839 3.37 30 6 37528 0743275101 9780743275101 0 <![CDATA[Donald Trump: Master Apprentice]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168966244m/37528.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37528.Donald_Trump_Master_Apprentice 0.0 0 The Apprentice, Donald Trump tells his contenders that location and pricing are supremely significant. But in his own life, there have been other maxims: Do whatever it takes to win. Don't spare the chutzpah. Always use the superlative. Make everything into an advertisement for yourself. Whatever happens, always claim victory. Following these personal commandments, he has turned bragging, self-inflation, and showing off into competitive advantages that have brought him national and international renown.

In Donald Trump: Master Apprentice, best-selling author Gwenda Blair recounts a true-life history with more twists and turns than any television producer could possibly imagine. Towering skyscrapers and glittering casinos, a luxury airline and a football-field-size yacht, steamy affairs and bitter lawsuits, near bankruptcy and stormy feuds -- all this and more are part of the life of Trump.

An adaptation and update of her definitive biography, The Trumps, this new book provides fresh material on Donald Trump's brushes with bankruptcy, mammoth construction projects, and ever-expanding place in American life. Drawing on recent interviews with the celebrated real estate magnate, his associates, his rivals, and contestants from his television show, Blair offers new insight into the man who seems to have it all. For the first time, we also get a glimpse of the person who will ultimately decide the fate of the Trump brand: Donald Trump, Jr., the real-life apprentice who hopes to put his own imprint on his father's empire.

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