GANADOR DEL PREMIO PULITZERCubriendo el largo recorrido de la carrera de Donald Trump, Johnston cuenta la fascinante e hilarante historia de cómo un chico de una tranquila zona de Queens (Nueva York) se convertiria en una completamente nueva y compleja especie de figura publica. Trump es un hombre de gran inteligencia mediatica, espiritu emprendedor y poder politico. Sin embargo, su carrera ha estado plagada de innumerables problemas legales y una enorme controversia en torno a su persona y sus actividades financieras. Desde los origenes de la fortuna inmobiliaria de su familia, hasta su propio imperio de negocios demasiado grande como para fracasar; desde su educacion y carrera temprana, hasta el torbellino de su candidatura presidencial, el libro proporciona la imagen mas completa del extraordinario ascenso de Trump.La influencia masiva de Trump es innegable, y figuras tan diversas como Woody Guthrie (quien escribio una cancion mordaz sobre el padre de Trump) y el fiscal Roy Cohn (mas conocido por su actuacion durante el Temor Rojo), jefes de la mafia, estrellas del deporte, asi como el votante medio estadounidense, han sido arrastrados a su orbita. David Cay Johnston, que ha seguido a Trump mas de cerca que cualquier otro periodista, nos da una mirada mas profunda sobre el hombre que ya es presidente, partiendo de decadas de entrevistas, registros financieros, documentos judiciales y declaraciones publicas.

Cubriendo el largo recorrido de la carrera de Donald Trump, Johnston cuenta la fascinante e hilarante historia de cómo un chico de una tranquila zona de Queens (Nueva York) se convertiría en una completamente nueva y compleja especie de figura pública. Trump es un hombre de gran inteligencia mediática, espíritu emprendedor y poder político. Sin embargo, su carrera ha estado plagada de innumerables problemas legales y una enorme controversia en torno a su persona y sus actividades financieras. Desde los orígenes de la fortuna inmobiliaria de su familia, hasta su propio imperio de negocios demasiado grande como para fracasar; desde su educación y carrera temprana, hasta el torbellino de su candidatura presidencial.

In the culmination of nearly 30 years of reporting on Donald Trump, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston takes a revealingly close look at the moguls rise to power and prominence.Covering the long arc of Trumps career, Johnston tells the full story of how a boy from a quiet section of Queens, NY would become an entirely new, and complex, breed of public figure. Trump is a man of great media savvy, entrepreneurial spirit, and political clout. Yet his career has been plagued by legal troubles and mounting controversy.From the origins of his familys real estate fortune, to his own too-big-to-fail business empire; from his education and early career, to his whirlwind presidential bid, The Making of Donald Trump provides the fullest picture yet of Trumps extraordinary ascendency. Love him or hate him, Trumps massive influence is undeniable, and figures as diverse as Woody Guthrie (who wrote a scathing song about Trumps father) and Red Scare prosecutor Roy Cohn, mob bosses and high rollers, as well as the average American voter, have all been pulled into his orbit.Drawing on decades of interviews, financial records, court documents, and public statements, David Cay Johnston, who has covered Trump more closely than any other journalist working today, gives us the most in-depth look yet at the man who would be president.

From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administrations policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safetycompleted revised and updated. New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer David Cay Johnston shines a light on the political termites who have infested our government under the Trump administration, destroying it from within and compromising our jobs, safety, finances, and more.In Its Even Worse Than You Think, Johnston exposes shocking details about the Mexican border wall, and how American consumers will end up paying for it, if it ever gets built; climate change, and all about Scott Pruitt who spent much of his career trying to destroy the agency he now heads; stockingnot drainingthe swamp, despite his promise to do the opposite, Trump has filled his cabinet with millionaires and billionaires; and the Kleptocracy, where Donald Jr. and Eric run an eyes-wide-open blind trust of Trump holdings to avoid the appearance of conflict of interestbut not the reality.With story after story, Its Even Worse Than You Think"diagnoses the Trump administration as agovernment by the least qualified and most venal among us (TheWashington Post). This is a momentously thorough account of President Trumps alarmingly chaotic first year in officea precise and fiery indictment of an unstable, unethical president that concludes with a call for us to defend our democracy (Booklist) and is urgent, necessary reading (Kirkus Reviews).

Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter and dean of Trumpologists David Cay Johnston reveals years of eye-popping financial misdeeds by Donald Trump and his family.While the world watched Donald Trumps presidency in horror or delight, few noticed that his lifelong grifting quietly continued. Less than forty minutes after taking the oath of office, Trump began turning the White House into a money machine for himself, his family, and his courtiers.More than $1.7 billion flowed into Donald Trumps bank accounts during his four years as president. Foreign governments rented out whole floors of his hotel five blocks from the White House while lobbyists conducted business in the hotels restaurants. Payday lenders and other trade groups moved their annual conventions to Trump golf resorts. And individual favor seekers joined his private Mar-a-Lago club with its $200,000 admission fee in hopes of getting a few minutes with the President. Despite earning more than $1 million every day he was in office, Trump left the White House as he arrivedhard up for cash. More than $400 million in debt comes due by 2024, and Trump still lacks the resources to pay it back.Few people are as well positioned to write an expose of the former president as Johnston (The Washington Post), and The Big Cheat offers a guided tour of how money flowed in and out of Trumps hundreds of enterprises, showing in simple terms how a corrupt president used our government for his benefit, even putting national security at risk. Johnston details the four most recent years of the corruption that has defined the Trump family since 1885 and reveals the costs of Trumps extravagant lifestyle for American taxpayers.

The bestselling author of Perfectly Legal returns with a powerful new exposé How does a strong and growing economy lend itself to job uncertainty, debt, bankruptcy, and economic fear for a vast number of Americans? Free Lunch provides answers to this great economic mystery of our time, revealing how todays government policies and spending reach deep into the wallets of the many for the benefit of the wealthy few. Johnston cuts through the official version of events and shows how, under the guise of deregulation, a whole new set of regulations quietly went into effect-- regulations that thwart competition, depress wages, and reward misconduct. From how George W. Bush got rich off a tax increase to a $100 million taxpayer gift to Warren Buffett, Johnston puts a face on all of the dirty little tricks that business and government pull. A lot of people appear to be getting free lunches, but of course theres no such thing as a free lunch, and someone (you, the taxpayer) is picking up the bill. Johnstons many revelations include: How we ended up with the most expensive yet inefficient health-care system in the world How homeowners title insurance became a costly, deceitful, yet almost invisible oligopoly How our government gives hidden subsidies for posh golf courses How Paris Hiltons grandfather schemed to retake the family fortune from a charity for poor children How the Yankees and Mets owners will collect more than $1.3 billion in public funds In these instances and many more, Free Lunch shows how the lobbyists and lawyers representing the most powerful 0.1 percent of Americans manipulated our government at the expense of the other 99.9 percent. With his extraordinary reporting, vivid stories, and sharp analysis, Johnston reveals the forces that shape our everyday economic lives and shows us how we can finally make things better.

No other modern country gives corporations the unfettered power found in America to gouge customers, shortchange workers, and erect barriers to fair play. A big reason is that so little of the news . . . addresses the private, government-approved mechanisms by which price gouging is employed to redistribute income upward.You are being systematically exploited by powerful corporations every day. These companies squeeze their trusting customers for every last cent, risk their retirement funds, and endanger their lives. And they do it all legally. How? Its all in the fine print.David Cay Johnston, the bestselling author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch, is famous for exposing the perfidies of our biggest institutions. Now he turns his attention to the ways huge corporations hide sneaky stipulations in just about every contract, often with government permission.Johnston has been known to whip out a utility bill and explain line by line what all that mumbo jumbo actually means (and it doesnt mean anything good, unless you happen to be the utility company). Within all that jargon, disclosed in accordance with all legal requirements, lie the tools these companies use to rob you blind. Even worse is whats missingall the contractually binding clauses that companies hide elsewhere yet still enforce and abuse. Consider, for example, how: An insurance company repeatedly delayed paying for a paralyzed mans vital care despite court orders to pay up. Laws in nineteen states let companies like Goldman Sachs, General Electric, and Procter & Gamble pocket the state income taxes withheld from their workers paychecks for up to twenty-five years. A little-known government rule gives safety waivers to deadly industrial facilities secretly located underneath schools and playgrounds. The FCC Charge on your phone bill, which appears to be a government fee, actually goes straight to the phone company. Johnston shares solutions you can use to fight back against the hundreds of obscure fees and taxes that line the pockets of big corporations, and to help end these devious practices once and for all.

Now updated with a new prologue! Since the mid-1970s, there has been a dramatic shift in Americas socioeconomic system, one that has gone virtually unnoticed by the general public. Tax policies and their enforcement have become a disaster, and thanks to discreet lobbying by a segment of the top 1 percent, Washington is reluctant or unable to fix them. The corporate income tax, the estate tax, and the gift tax have been largely ignored by the media. But the cumulative results are remarkable: today someone who earns a yearly salary of $60,000 pays a larger percentage of his income in taxes than the four hundred richest Americans.Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston exposes exactly how the middle class is being squeezed to create a widening wealth gap that threatens the stability of the country. By relating the compelling tales of real people across all areas of society, he reveals the truth behind: "Middle class" tax cuts and exactly whom they benefit. How workers are being cheated out of their retirement plans while disgraced CEOs walk away with millions. How some corporations avoid paying any federal income tax. How a law meant to prevent cheating by the top 2 percent of Americans no longer affects most of them, but has morphed into a stealth tax on single mothers making just $28,000. Why the working poor are seven times more likely to be audited by the IRS than everyone else. How the IRS became so weak that even when it was handed complete banking records detailing massive cheating by 1,600 people, it prosecuted only 4 percent of them.Johnston has been breaking pieces of this story on the front page of The New York Times for seven years. With Perfectly Legal, he puts the whole shocking narrative together in a way that will stir up media attention and make readers angry about the state of our country.