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This bibliography of Donald Trump is a list of written and published works, by and about Donald Trump. Due to the sheer volume of books about Trump, the titles listed here are limited to non-fiction books about Trump or his presidency, published by notable authors and scholars. Tertiary sources (including textbooks and juvenile literature), satire, and self-published books are excluded.
Prior to his 2016 campaign, Trump was already the focus of many books describing his life as a businessman and politician. [1] Biographer Michael D'Antonio observed in Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success (2015) that Trump "has been a topic of conversation in America for almost 40 years. No one in the world of business – not Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Warren Buffett – has been as famous as Trump for as long." Almost one year after his inauguration as president, The Guardian noted that more than 4,500 English-language books about Trump had been published since he took office, compared to just over 800 works about Trump's predecessor Barack Obama during his first year in office. [2] This "Trump bump" for the U.S. publishing industry, as The New York Times put it, persisted throughout his time in office. [3] But afterwards, demand for books about his presidency dropped off sharply. [4]
Trump's first published book in 1987 was Trump: The Art of the Deal , written by ghostwriter Tony Schwartz. [1] [5] [6] Trump made a practice of hiring ghostwriters and co-authors to write his books. [7] [8] [9] In some cases the ghostwriters are credited on the cover, while in other instances, including Time to Get Tough (2011) and Crippled America (2015), Trump makes mention of the writer's contributions in the acknowledgements sections. Works written by Trump himself include self-help books, personal finance books, political policy treatises, and autobiographies. [1] [10] "...Schwartz has noted that, during the year and a half that they worked together on The Art of the Deal, he never saw a single book in Trump's office or apartment. Yet Trump has taken authorial credits on more than a dozen books to date, and, given that he’s a proven marketing master, it's inconceivable that he won’t try to sell more." [11]
The Washington Post journalist Carlos Lozada observed that a continuous theme throughout Trump's written works is a focus on Trump himself, such as citing examples from his business in real estate investing and work on television. Parties and individuals discussed in books by Trump are reduced to a zero-sum game, according to Lozada: "Trump’s world is binary, divided into class acts and total losers." Trump often makes use of hyperbole to illustrate his points in his works. In other books, Trump repeats the same stories of what he views as key successes from his business career; for example, a tale about a 1980s business deal improving the Wollman Rink in Central Park, New York. [10] Trump's published writings shifted post-2000, from generally memoirs about himself to books giving advice about finance. [10]
Title | Year | Publisher | ISBN / OCLC | Ghostwriter(s) | Notes |
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Trump: The Art of the Deal | 1987 | Random House | 978-0-345-47917-4 | Tony Schwartz [5] [6] | It reached number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, stayed there for 13 weeks, and altogether held a position on the list for 48 weeks. Schwartz discussed his alleged ghostwriting, in a 2016 article in The New Yorker . [12] |
Trump: Surviving at the Top | 1990 | Random House | 978-0-394-57597-1 | Charles Leerhsen [13] | Subsequently, as: The Art of Survival (1991), ISBN 978-0-446-36209-2 |
Trump: The Art of the Comeback | 1997 | Times Books | 978-0-8129-2964-5 | Kate Bohner [14] | |
The America We Deserve | 2000 | Renaissance Books | 978-1-580-63131-0 | Dave Shiflett [15] | Published during decision-making process for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2000. [16] |
Trump: How to Get Rich | 2004 | Random House | 978-0-345-48103-0 | Meredith McIver [17] [18] | |
The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received | 2004 | Crown Business | 978-1-4000-5016-1 | ||
Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life | 2004 | Random House | 978-0-345-48140-5 | Meredith McIver [18] | |
The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received | 2005 | Crown | 978-0-307-20999-3 | ||
Why We Want You to Be Rich | 2006 | Rich Press | 978-1-933914-02-2 | Meredith McIver [18] | Robert Kiyosaki as coauthor. Debuted at number one on The New York Times best seller list [19] |
How to Build a Fortune: Your Plan for Success From the World's Most Famous Businessman | 2006 | Trump University | OCLC 67616909 | Audiobook | |
The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received: 100 Top Experts Share Their Strategies | 2006 | Thomas Nelson | 978-1-4016-0255-0 | ||
Trump 101: The Way to Success | 2006 | Wiley | 978-0-470-04710-1 | Meredith McIver [18] | The Washington Post , Politico , and CNN called the work a "Trump University book". [20] [21] [22] |
Think Big and Kick Ass | 2007 | HarperCollins | 978-0-06-154783-6 | Bill Zanker [23] | Trump and Zanker had prior business dealings through Zanker's company The Learning Annex. [24] [25] |
Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success | 2008 | Wiley | 978-0-470-19084-5 | Meredith McIver [18] | |
Think Like a Champion: An Informal Education in Business and Life | 2009 | Vanguard Press | 978-0-7624-3856-3 | Meredith McIver [18] | |
Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again | 2011 | Regnery | 978-1-59698-773-9 | Wynton Hall [26] [27] Peter Schweizer [26] [27] Meredith McIver [28] | On the Issues noted changes in political views compared with prior book The America We Deserve. [29] |
Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich – And Why Most Don't | 2011 | Plata Publishing | 978-1-61268-095-8 | Second collaboration with co-author Robert Kiyosaki after Why We Want You to Be Rich [30] | |
Trump Tower | 2011 | Vanguard Press | 978-1-59315-643-5 | Jeffrey Robinson | The book was billed as Trump's "debut novel", and later released with Jeffrey Robinson credited as the sole author. [31] [32] [33] [34] |
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again | 2015 | Threshold Editions | 978-1-5011-3796-9 | David Fisher [35] [36] [37] | Subsequently, as: Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America (2016) [38] |
Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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Carlos Lozada | What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | 978-1-9821-4562-0 | [78] |
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.
Trump: The Art of the Deal is a 1987 book credited to Donald J. Trump and journalist Tony Schwartz. Part memoir and part business-advice book, it was the first book credited to Trump, and helped to make him a household name. It reached number 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list, stayed there for 13 weeks, and altogether held a position on the list for 48 weeks. The book received additional attention during Trump's 2016 campaign for the presidency of the United States. Trump cited it as one of his proudest accomplishments and his second-favorite book after the Bible.
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again is a non-fiction book by businessman Donald Trump, first published in hardcover by Simon & Schuster in 2015. A revised edition was subsequently republished eight months later in trade paperback format under the title Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled America. Like his previous work Time to Get Tough (2011) did for the U.S. presidential election in 2012, Crippled America outlined Trump's political agenda as he ran in the 2016 election on a conservative platform.
Trump: Surviving at the Top is a 1990 book written by businessman Donald Trump and journalist Charles Leerhsen, and published by Random House. In 1991, Warner Books purchased the paperback rights to the book and re-released it as The Art of Survival.
Trump: The Art of the Comeback is a 1997 book written by businessman and former President of the United States, Donald Trump and journalist Kate Bohner.
Donald Trump, an American businessman, politician, and former president of the United States has used several pseudonyms, including "John Barron", "John Miller" and "David Dennison". His practice of sometimes speaking to the media under the guise of a spokesperson has been described as "an open secret" at the Trump Organization and in New York media circles.
Stronger Together: A Blueprint for America's Future is a non-fiction book by politicians Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine, first published in paperback by Simon & Schuster in 2016. Stronger Together outlined Clinton and Kaine's political agenda as they ran in the 2016 election for president and vice president, respectively, on a liberal platform.
Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success is a 2015 biography of Donald Trump by Michael D'Antonio. The book includes interviews with Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., first wife Ivana Trump, second wife Marla Maples, and Theodore Dobias, Trump's coach and drill sergeant at New York Military Academy, which he attended as a teenager.
TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald is a 2005 biographical book about Donald Trump that was written by Timothy L. O'Brien and published by Warner Books. After the book was published, Trump filed a $5 billion lawsuit against O'Brien, who had written that Trump was not a billionaire and that his net worth actually ranged between $150 million and $250 million. Trump sought $2.5 billion in compensatory damages and an additional $2.5 billion in punitive damages. The lawsuit was dismissed in 2009, and an appeals court affirmed the decision in 2011.
Matthew Forbes Pottinger is an American former journalist and U.S. Marine Corps officer who served as the United States deputy national security advisor from September 22, 2019 to January 7, 2021. Previously Asia director on the National Security Council since 2017, his tenure was unusual among senior aides serving under President Trump for its length, given an administration marked by high turnover. Pottinger worked to develop the Trump administration's policies towards China.
Think Big and Kick Ass: In Business and in Life is a non-fiction book by Donald Trump, then head of The Trump Organization and later President of the United States, and Bill Zanker, The Learning Annex entrepreneur, first published in hardcover in 2007 by HarperCollins. Another edition was subsequently published in paperback in 2008 under the title Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life. Trump and Zanker had prior business ventures together before writing the book; Zanker's company helped gain Trump speaking engagements around the world with large audiences.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump is a 2017 book edited by Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist, containing essays from 27 psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals describing the "clear and present danger" that US President Donald Trump's mental health poses to the "nation and individual well being". A second edition updated and expanded the book with additional essays. Lee maintains that the book remains strictly a public service, and all royalties were donated to the public good to remove any conflict of interest.
Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again is a non-fiction book by Donald Trump. It was published in hardcover format by Regnery Publishing in 2011, and reissued under the title Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! in 2015 to match Trump's 2016 election campaign slogan. Trump had previously published The America We Deserve (2000) as preparation for his attempt to run in the 2000 U.S. presidential campaign with a populist platform. Time to Get Tough in contrast served as his prelude to the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, with a conservative platform.
Trump 101: The Way to Success is a book credited to Donald Trump and written by ghostwriter Meredith McIver. The first edition was published in hardcover format by Wiley in 2006. The book contains twenty-four chapters imparting advice on business acumen with quotations included from Trump. The authors caution the reader about the inherent risks seen in business deals, and advise individuals to promptly deal with conflicts. Trump recommends other books including The Art of War and The Power of Positive Thinking, as well as his company Trump University.
Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power is a biography of Donald Trump, written by Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher. It was first published in 2016 in hardcover format by Scribner. It was released in ebook format that year and paperback format in 2017 under the title Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President. The book was a collaborative research project by The Washington Post, supervised by the newspaper's editor Marty Baron and consisting of contributions from thirty-eight journalists, and two fact-checkers. Trump initially refused to be interviewed for the book, then relented, and subsequently raised the possibility of a libel lawsuit against the authors. After the book was completed, Trump urged his Twitter followers not to buy it.
Damian Paletta is an American journalist who is currently the economics editor for The Washington Post. He was previously a White House correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
Scott William Atlas is an American radiologist, political commentator, and health care policy advisor. He is the Robert Wesson Senior Fellow in health care policy at the Hoover Institution, a conservative think tank located at Stanford University. During the United States presidential campaigns of 2008, 2012, and 2016, Atlas was a Senior Advisor for Health Care to several presidential candidates. From 1998 to 2012 he was a professor and chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center.
Frederick Crist Trump Jr. was an American airplane pilot and maintenance worker. The eldest son of real-estate businessman Fred Trump Sr., he fell out of his father's favor when he chose to become an airline pilot, leading to his younger brother Donald inheriting the family business.
Disloyal: A Memoir; The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump is a 2020 book by Michael Cohen. In the memoir, Cohen recollects his time working as an attorney for Donald Trump from 2006 to 2018, his felony convictions, and other personal affairs. Throughout the book, Cohen alleges numerous incidents of wrongdoing by Trump.
Yasmeen Abutaleb is a New York Times best selling author and journalist who was the national health policy reporter and as of August 4, 2022 is a White House reporter for The Washington Post.
I didn't find any major revelations in "Never Enough," but D'Antonio's book usefully plants Trump's rise, fall and comeback in the context of broader social, psychological and technological trends –the rise of the Me Generation, the "culture of narcissism" described by Christopher Lasch, the Internet and social media –and brings the story forward to Trump's announcement this year that he would seek the Republican nomination. D'Antonio points out the obvious, which is that much of what Trump says can euphemistically be called exaggeration, but he sheds little light on the source and scope of Trump's fortune, which is his primary qualification for the presidency
Trump's speeches or read his books (which were typically written by ghostwriters or co-authors)
Of course, questions remain about how many of these 17 books Trump has, in any literal sense, written. Each of them is ghosted, a collaborative relationship in which the exact division of labour remains mysterious.
Their commercial success notwithstanding, Trump's books have often been products of ghostwriters or co-authors
Trump's world is binary, divided into class acts and total losers. He even details how physically unattractive he finds particular reporters, for no reason that I can fathom other than that it crossed his mind.
Compare the text of the new book to that of the old (there's a different ghostwriter this time) and you'll notice an obvious increase in the employment of flattering adjectives
Kate got the job: ghostwriter for Donald Trump's upcoming book
In 2000, Donald Trump released a book called 'The America We Deserve.' Even though Trump's name was on the cover, like many politicians and famous people in general, Trump worked with a ghost writer. In this case a man named Dave Shiflett.
Meredith McIver, one of the assistants who doubles as his ghost writer
a 2007 Trump University book, 'Trump 101: The Way to Success.'
Here's how Trump (or, rather, his ghostwriter Bill Zanker) put it in his 2007 book 'Think Big'
In September, 2015, Fisher worked with then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on his campaign book, Crippled America.
I would like to thank David Fisher ... [for] assistance throughout writing this book.
He was a ghostwriter for Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again, Trump's 2015 presidential campaign book.
Trump in August lashed out at the Washington Post, telling his Twitter followers not to buy the publication's book about him. 'The @WashingtonPost quickly put together a hit job book on me – comprised of copies of some of their inaccurate stories. Don't buy, boring!' Trump wrote about Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money and Power.
In a tweet on Monday night, GOP nominee Donald Trump told supporters not to buy a 'boring' new biography about him, Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power, which went on sale Tuesday. 'The @WashingtonPost quickly put together a hit job book on me- comprised of copies of some of their inaccurate stories. Don't buy, boring!' he wrote.
Donald Trump on Monday slammed The Washington Post reporters and researchers behind a new book about him, calling it a 'hit job' made up of 'inaccurate' stories. Trump urged people not to buy the book one day before its release, tweeting: 'Don't buy, boring!'
Circus Maximus ... 'Insane Clown President,' which enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 15.
Debuting at No. 6 in nonfiction on our bestseller list this week is Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi's book of essays about the 2016 presidential campaign, 'Insane Clown President.'