Trump & Me by Mark Singer is a small paperback book in excellent pre-owned condition - like new.
Ever
since Donald Trump entered the presidential race—in a press conference
attended by paid actors, in which he slandered Mexican immigrants—he has
dominated headlines, becoming the unrestrained and at the centre of one
of the most bizarre and alarming elections in American history.
It was not always so. In 1996, long time New Yorker
writer Mark Singer was conscripted by his editor to profile Donald
Trump. At that time Trump was a mere Manhattan-centric megalomaniac, a
failing casino operator mired in his second divorce and (he claimed)
recovering from the bankruptcy proceedings that prompted him to
inventory the contents of his Trump Tower home. Conversing with Trump in
his offices, apartments, cars, and private plane, Singer found himself
fascinated with this man “who had aspired to and achieved the ultimate
luxury, an existence unmolested by the rumbling of a soul.”
In Trump and Me,
Singer revisits the profile and recounts how its publication lodged
inside its subject’s head as an enduring irritant—and how Singer (“A Total Loser” according to Trump) cheerfully continued to bait him. He
reflects on Trump’s evolution from swaggering buffoon to potential
threat to America’s standing as a rational guardian of the world order.
Heedlessly combative, equally adept at spewing insults and manipulating
crowds at his campaign rallies, the self-proclaimed billionaire has
emerged as an unlikely tribune of populist rage. All politics is
artifice, and Singer marvels at how Trump has transfixed an electorate
with his ultimate feat of performance art—a mass political movement only
loosely tethered to reality.