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This bibliography of Donald Trump is a list of written and published works, by and about Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States. 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] | |
Our Journey Together | 2021 | Winning Team Publishing | 978-1-735-50372-1 | ||
Letters to Trump | 2023 | Winning Team Publishing | 978-1-735-50375-2 | ||
Save America | 2024 | Winning Team Publishing | 979-8-990-29062-4 | Published on September 3, 2024. [38] |
Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN / ASIN | Notes |
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Jerome Tuccille | Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron | Penguin | 1985 | 978-1-55611-069-6 | |
John O'Donnell and James Rutherford | Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump – His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall | Simon & Schuster | 1991 | 978-0-671-73735-1 | Trump called the author O'Donnell "a fucking loser". [39] |
John Connolly | How to Fool All of the People, All of the Time | Spy | 1991 | ASIN B01ICCQITE (Kindle) | The e-book was published in July 2016 [40] [41] |
Wayne Barrett | Trump: The Deals and the Downfall | HarperCollins | 1992 | 978-0-06-016704-2 | |
Harry Hurt III | Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump | Norton | 1993 | 978-0-393-03029-7 | |
Gwenda Blair | The Trumps: Three Generations That Built an Empire | Simon & Schuster | 2000 | 0-684-80849-8 | [42] |
Robert Slater | No Such Thing as Over-exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump | Prentice Hall | 2005 | 978-0-13-149734-4 | |
Timothy L. O'Brien | TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald | Warner Books | 2005 | 978-0-446-57854-7 | Trump sued the author for libel and the case was dismissed, Trump then appealed, and the dismissal was affirmed. [43] [44] [45] |
Gwenda Blair | Donald Trump: The Candidate | Simon & Schuster | 2007 | 978-1-4165-4654-2 | [46] |
George H. Ross | Trump-Style Negotiation: Powerful Strategies and Tactics for Mastering Every Deal | John Wiley & Sons | 2008 | 978-0-470-22529-5 | |
David Ewen | Chasing Paradise: Donald Trump and the Battle for the World's Greatest Golf Course | Black & White | 2010 | 978-1-84502-311-9 | |
Richard Bronson | The War at the Shore: Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, and the Epic Battle to Save Atlantic City | Overlook Press | 2012 | 978-1-4683-0046-8 | |
Kevin D. Williamson | The Case Against Trump | Encounter Books | 2015 | 978-1-59403-877-8 | |
Michael D'Antonio | Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success | Thomas Dunne Books | 2015 | 978-1-250-04238-5 | Subsequently, as: The Truth About Trump. St. Martin's Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-250-10528-8. [47] |
Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher | Trump Revealed: An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money, and Power | Scribner | 2016 | 978-1-5011-5577-2 | Trump urged his Twitter followers not to buy the biography. [48] [49] [50] |
Time editors | Donald Trump: The Rise of a Rule Breaker | Time | 2016 | 978-1-68330-416-6 | |
Anastasia Catris | Where's Trump? Find Donald Trump in his race to the White House | Orion | 2016 | 978-1-4091-6773-0 | |
David Cay Johnston | The Making of Donald Trump | Melville House | 2016 | 978-1-61219-632-9 | The author researched Trump for 30 years prior to writing the biography. [51] |
Ann Coulter | In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! | Sentinel | 2016 | 978-0-7352-1446-0 | The e-book was a New York Times bestseller in September 2016. [52] |
Jackson Katz | Man Enough? Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and the Politics of Presidential Masculinity | Interlink | 2016 | 978-1-56656-083-2 | |
Seth Milstein | The Little Book of Trumpisms | Portico | 2016 | 978-1-911042-38-9 | |
Ted Rall | Trump: A Graphic Biography | Seven Stories Press | 2016 | 978-1-60980-758-0 | [47] |
Alan Whiticker | Trumped: The Wonderful World and Wisdom of Donald Trump | New Holland | 2016 | 978-1-74257-896-5 | |
Jeffrey Lord | What America Needs: The Case for Trump | Regnery | 2016 | 978-1-62157-523-8 | |
Wayne Barrett | Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention | Simon and Schuster | 2016 | 978-1-942872-97-9 | [53] |
Katy Tur | Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History | Dey Street Books | 2017 | 978-0-06-268492-9 | |
Ivana Trump | Raising Trump: Family Values from America's First Mother | Gallery Books | 2017 | 978-1-5011-7728-6 | |
Jon Sopel | If Only They Didn't Speak English | BBC Books | 2017 | 978-1-78594-226-6 | |
Roger Stone | The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution | Skyhorse | 2017 | 978-1-5107-2692-5 | |
Joshua Green | Devil's Bargain | Penguin | 2017 | 978-0-7352-2502-2 | |
Matt Taibbi | Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus | Spiegel & Grau | 2017 | 978-0-399-59246-1 | Book was both on The New York Times Best Seller list and the Los Angeles Times Best Seller list [54] [55] |
Newt Gingrich | Understanding Trump | Center Street | 2017 | 978-1-4789-2308-4 | The book topped The New York Times ' Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Sellers list on July 2. [56] |
David Horowitz | Big Agenda: President Trump's Plan to Save America | Humanix Books | 2017 | 978-1-63006-087-9 | |
Scott Adams | Win Bigly | Portfolio | 2017 | 978-0-7352-1971-7 | |
Bandy X. Lee | The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump | Thomas Dunne Books | 2017 | 978-1-250-17945-6 | [57] |
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie | Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency | Center Street | 2017 | 978-1-5460-8330-6 | |
Allan Lichtman | The Case for Impeachment | Dey Street Books | 2017 | 978-0-06-269682-3 | |
Malcolm Nance | The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election | Skyhorse | 2016 | 978-1-5107-2332-0 | The Wall Street Journal Best Seller in nonfiction ebooks [58] |
Stephen Mansfield | Choosing Donald Trump: God, Anger, Hope, and Why Christian Conservatives Supported Him | Baker Books | 2017 | 978-0-8010-0733-0 | |
Keith Olbermann | Trump is F*cking Crazy (This is Not a Joke) | Blue Rider Press | 2017 | 978-0-525-53386-3 | |
Caitríona Perry | In America: Tales from Trump Country | Gill | 2017 | 978-0-7171-7953-4 | |
Nathan J. Robinson | Trump: Anatomy of a Monstrosity | Demilune Press | 2017 | 978-0-9978447-7-1 | |
Michael Savage | Trump's War: His Battle for America | Center Street | 2017 | 978-1-4789-7667-7 | |
Laura Ingraham | Billionaire at the Barricades | St. Martin's Press | 2017 | 978-1-2501-5064-6 | |
Phyllis Schafly ; posthumously, with Ed Martin and Brett M. Decker | The Conservative Case for Trump | Regnery | 2016 | 978-1-62157-628-0 | |
Andrew Shaffer | The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America! | Crooked Lane Books | 2016 | 978-1-68331-045-7 | |
Hart Seely | Bard of the Deal: The Poetry of Donald Trump | HarperCollins | 2015 | 978-0-06-246516-0 | |
Rob Sears | The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump | Canongate Books | 2017 | 978-1-78689-227-0 | |
Marc Shapiro | Trump This! The Life and Times of Donald Trump, An Unauthorized Biography | Riverdale Avenue Books | 2016 | 978-1-62601-264-6 | |
Dan Bongino , D.C. McAllister, and Matt Palumbo | Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump | Post Hill Press | 2018 | 978-1-64293-098-6 | |
Hal Brands | American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump | Brookings Institution | 2018 | 978-0-8157-3278-5 | |
David Brody | The Faith of Donald J. Trump | Broadside Books | 2018 | 978-0-06-274959-8 | [59] |
Craig Unger | House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia | Dutton | 2018 | 978-1-524-74350-5 | |
Seth Hettena | Trump/Russia: A Definitive History | Melville House | 2018 | 978-1612197395 | |
Bob Woodward | Fear: Trump in the White House | Simon & Schuster | 2018 | 978-1-5011-7551-0 | |
Michael Wolff | Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House | Henry Holt and Company | 2018 | 978-1-250-15806-2 | |
Anthony Scaramucci | Trump: The Blue-Collar President | Center Street, Hachette Book Group | 2018 | 978-1-5460-7640-7 | [60] |
Alan Dershowitz | The Case Against Impeaching Trump | Hot Books | 2018 | 978-1-5107-4228-4 | |
David Frum | Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic | Harper | 2018 | 978-0-06-279673-8 | |
Newt Gingrich | Trump's America: The Truth about Our Nation's Great Comeback | Center Street | 2018 | 978-1-5460-7706-0 | |
Luke Harding | Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win | Vintage | 2018 | 978-0-525-56251-1 | |
David Cay Johnston | It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America | Simon & Schuster | 2018 | 978-1-5011-7416-2 | |
Howard Kurtz | Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth | Regnery | 2018 | 978-1-62157-726-3 | |
Michael Lewis | The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy | W.W. Norton & Company | 2018 | 978-0-393-35745-5 | |
Omarosa Manigault Newman | Unhinged | Gallery Publishing Group | 2018 | 978-1-9821-0970-7 | Trump reacted by referring to Manigault Newman as a "lowlife" and "that dog". [61] |
Michael Nelson | Trump's First Year | University of Virginia Press | 2018 | 978-0-8139-4144-8 | |
Anonymous (Miles Taylor) | A Warning | Twelve Books | 2019 | 978-1-5387-1846-9 | Written by the anonymous Trump White House official who wrote "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration" in September 2018. |
James D. Zirin | Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits | St. Martin's Publishsing Group | 2019 | 978-1250201621 | [62] |
Victor Davis Hanson | The Case for Trump | Basic Books | 2019 | 978-1-5416-7354-0 | |
Neil Katyal and Sam Koppelman | Impeach: The Case Against Donald Trump | 2019 | 978-0-358-39117-3 | ||
James Poniewozik | Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America | Liveright | 2019 | 978-1-63149-442-0 | [63] |
Rick Reilly | Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump | Hachette Books | 2019 | 978-0-316-52808-5 | [64] |
Michael Wolff | Siege: Trump Under Fire | Henry Holt and Company | 2019 | 978-1-250-25382-8 | |
Bill O'Reilly | The United States of Trump: How the President Really Sees America | Henry Holt and Company | 2019 | 978-1-250-23722-4 | |
Jim Acosta | The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America | Harper | 2019 | 978-0-06-291612-9 | |
Peter Bergen | Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos | Penguin Random House | 2019 | 978-0525522416 | |
Doug Wead | Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story Of His Presidency | Center Street | 2019 | 978-1-5460-8585-0 | |
Jonathan Karl | Front Row at the Trump Show | Dutton | 2020 | 978-1-5247-4562-2 | |
Sarah Kendzior | Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America | Flatiron Books | 2020 | 978-1-250-21071-5 | |
Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig | A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump's Testing of America | Penguin (US); Bloomsbury (UK) | 2020 | 978-1-9848-7749-9 | Details the first three years of the Trump presidency. |
Michael Jolls | Make Hollywood Great Again: Cinema in the Era of President Trump | Kindle Direct Publishing | 2020 | 979-8634377155 | |
Jeffrey Toobin | True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump | Doubleday | 2020 | 978-0-385-53673-8 | |
Michael Cohen | Disloyal, A Memoir: The True Story Of The Former Personal Attorney To President Donald J. Trump | Skyhorse | 2020 | 978-1-5107-6469-9 | |
Norman Eisen | A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump | Crown | 2020 | 978-0-593-23843-1 | |
Michael S. Schmidt | Donald Trump v. The United States | Penguin Random House | 2020 | 978-1-9848-5466-7 | Sep. 2020 release |
Richard Ryan | The Last Presidential Election: How Donald Trump has Subverted our Institutions, Undermined our Constitution, and Threatened the future of our Democracy | Goldflex Pubs with Lulu | 2020 | 978-1-71683-121-8 | |
John Bolton | The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | 978-1-9821-4803-4 | The Trump administration unsuccessfully sought to block release of the book; a US federal judge denied this request. [65] |
Peter Strzok | Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 2020 | 978-0-358-23706-8 | Excerpted on CBS News website [66] |
Mary L. Trump | Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | 978-1-5011-7728-6 | |
Barbara Res | Tower of Lies: What My Eighteen Years of Working with Donald Trump Reveals about Him | Graymalkin Media | 2020 | 978-1-63168-304-6 | [67] |
Lawrence Douglas | Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020 | Twelve Books | 2020 | 978-1-5387-5188-6 | [68] |
Daniel W. Drezner | The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us About the Modern Presidency | University of Chicago Press | 2020 | 978-0-226-71425-7 | |
Michael D'Antonio | High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump | Thomas Dunne Books | 2020 | 978-1-250-76667-0 | |
Bob Woodward | Rage | Simon & Schuster | 2020 | 978-1-9821-3173-9 | Sep. 15 hardcover release |
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff | Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady | Gallery Books | 2020 | 978-1-9821-5124-9 | |
Dan P McAdams | The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning | Oxford University Press | 2020 | 978-0-19-750747-6 | McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. |
Jennifer Mercieca | Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump | Texas A&M University Press | 2020 | 978-1-62349-906-8 | [69] |
Dan Alexander | White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Business | Portfolio/Penguin | 2020 | 978-0593188521 | [70] |
Bandy X. Lee | Profile of a Nation: Trump's Mind, America's Soul | World Mental Health Coalition, Inc. | 2020 | 978-173555374-0 | [71] |
David Enrich | Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction | Custom House | 2021 | 978-0062878830 | |
Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta | Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration's Response to the Pandemic That Changed History | HarperCollins | 2021 | 978-0-06-306607-6 | [72] [73] [74] |
Michael C. Bender | Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost | Grand Central Publishing | 2021 | 978-1538734803 | [75] |
Michael Wolff | Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency | Henry Holt and Co. | 2021 | 978-1250830012 | [76] |
Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker | I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year | Penguin Press | 2021 | 978-0593298947 | [77] |
Mary L. Trump | The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal | St. Martin's Publishing Group | 2021 | 978-1-250278-45-6 | |
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa | Peril | Simon & Schuster | 2021 | 978-1-982182-91-5 | |
Maggie Haberman | Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America | Penguin Press | 2022 | 978-0-593-29734-6 | |
Martin Martin | Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post | Flatiron Books | 2023 | 978-1-250-84420-0 | |
H. R. McMaster | At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House | Harper | 2024 | 978-0-062-89950-7 | |
Fred Trump III | All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way | Gallery Books | 2024 | 978-1-668-07217-2 | |
Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig | Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success | Penguin Press | 2024 | 978-0-593-29864-0 | |
Newton Isaac | Trump Unyielding: The Quest For America's 47th Presidency | Bizmart Holdings | 2024 | 978-9-9130-7383-7 | eBook was on Amazon New and future releases in International and World Politics Best Seller List [78] [79] |
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 | [80] |
Donald John Trump is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who has served as the 47th president of the United States since January 20, 2025. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.
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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 it 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.
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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.
Michael Anton is an American conservative essayist, speechwriter and former private-equity executive who is currently the director of policy planning in the second Trump administration since January 2025. Previously, he was a senior national security official in the first Trump administration. Under a pseudonym he wrote "The Flight 93 Election," an influential essay in support of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era is a non-fiction book by Carlos Lozada, published in 2020.
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.'