Donald Trump: Master Apprentice

by Gwenda Blair

On the hugely successful hit reality TV show The Apprentice, Donald Trump tells his contenders that location and pricing are supremely significant. But in his own life, there have been other 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 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 Donald Trump, Jr., the real-life apprentice who hopes to put his own imprint on his father's empire.

Genres: Biography, Nonfiction

320 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Gwenda Blair writes for magazines and newspapers and is also an author and radio commentator. Her work has appeared in Newsweek, New York, Esquire, The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, TV Guide, Smart Money, and a number of other publications.

Reviews

[Seongho An · Rating 2 out of 5]

A conventional story about a greedy business man in the modern capitalist society.

[Gina Kali · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good.

[Omkar Pendse · Rating 1 out of 5]

Real estate developers all around the world, scums of the same kind.

[Jeff · Rating 2 out of 5]

Love him or hate him, I finally found a good, reasonably fair biography of Donald Trump!

Gwenda Blair's 2000-published The Trumps: Three Generations that Built an Empire is a wonderful triple-bio of The Donald, his father, and grandfather, that stretches from Los Angeles to New England; Palm Beach to the Yukon. And it all begins in Germany. Dense at times with real estate deals and high-dollar lending--as to be expected--and positively audacious at others, a handful of moments throughout the book border on downright charming.

2005's Donald Trump: Master Apprentice is taken from the second half of The Trumps, tweaked and slightly expanded, to piggyback the success of TV's "The Apprentice." Packaged for a more casual reader and Donald Trump fan base, Master Apprentice offers little to the more serious and history-minded reader (I only read the last chapter of this one, as the preceding chapters mirror Blair's original work on the subject).

Neither book approaches Trump's American presidency, but the character and behaviors that stand out in these books can easily be observed in and applied to his White House days.

[ISIS · Rating 5 out of 5]

Donald trump if you do not let our mexican people in i will have to unleash the power of my ding don all over your door...

[Robert Kradoska · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually Donald Trump: The candidate He was (and is) a driven real estate mogul

[Adam McCaffery · Rating 5 out of 5]

#Trumpforpresident

[Andre]

This book is really good about buisness and will help you make more money