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Want To Read a Great Book About Trump?
Want to read a really great book about Trump? And a book which you can fly through its 230 pages in an afternoon?
I recommend Apprentice in Wonderland, written by Ramin Setoodeh, who’s the co-editor in chief of Variety, and really knows show biz, which is what Trump is all about.
Setoodeh has been following Trump for twenty years, when he was a writer for Newsweek and interviewed Trump for the first time in 2004. That was the year which saw the first of 15 seasons of Trump’s reality-TV show, ‘The Apprentice,’ which transformed Trump from being a New York real estate developer into an international media star.
The book runs through all the major stories connected to how ’The Apprentice’ was produced, marketed and helped Trump prepare to become the 45th President whose election and time in office is described by him as a “dream” on the final page of the book.
But even though the author makes it clear that his expertise is in entertainment, not politics per se, much of what he covers not only gives us a unique glimpse into how Trump thinks and behaves, but also raises some truly profound issues about how politics operates today.
Because if one issue comes out from reading this narrative, and it’s an issue which appears and reappears again and again, is the extent to which Trump…