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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
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[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] |
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.'