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Trump Revealed

An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power
Sep 12, 2016
“Trump Revealed” is an up-to-date biography of the man who, at this writing, may be less than two months away from becoming president. Trump’s story as told here is an incredible one, replete with double-dealing, self-aggrandizement, instruction in how to get rich through bankruptcy and of how to parlay outrageous coarseness of character and unrelenting mendacity into fame, fortune, and political power. The authors are experienced journalists who would surely under normal circumstances be outraged that a sociopathic serial financial criminal is knocking on the white house door. But they succumb too much to the need to be even-handed, and they become breathless as they watch the Trump nightmare carnival play out, in the process making mainstream a new flavor of American fascism. Their ‘wow look how he did this!” reaction is understandable, but morally and intellectually inadequate. All of us are called upon, in this very dark political hour in our history, to come up with a more forceful one, and to put our shoulders to the wheel to stop this nightmare from becoming reality.