Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

An Instant New York Times Bestseller - A Washington Post Notable Book - A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year 'A first-rate financial thriller . . . Lucky Loser is one of those rare Trump books that deserve, even demand, to be read.' -Alexander Nazaryan, The New York Times From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times expos of then-President Trump's finances, an explosive investigation into the history of Donald Trump's wealth, revealing how one of the country's biggest business failures lied his way into the White House Soon after announcing his first campaign for the US presidency, Donald J. Trump told a national television audience that life 'has not been easy for me. It has not been easy for me.' Building on a narrative he had been telling for decades, he spun a hardscrabble fable of how he parlayed a small loan from his father into a multi-billion-dollar business and real estate empire. This feat, he argued, made him singularly