Maggie Haberman

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A political epic' - Guardian 'This is the book Trump fears most.' - Axios Few journalists have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few better understand the polarizing 45th president or his motivations. In this astonishing, illuminating book, Haberman reveals all about Trump the man, the president and the phenomenon.Interviews with hundreds of sources and with Trump himself portray a complicated and often contradictory figure. Capable of kindness but relying on casual cruelty as it suits his purposes. Pugnacious. Insecure. Lonely. Vindictive. Menacing. Smarter than his critics contend and colder and more calculating than his allies believe. A man who embedded himself in popular culture for decades, laying the groundwork to galvanize support for a successful run for high office.Chronicling Trump's entire career, from his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency and potential comeback, Confidence Man is a magnificent, disturbing reckoning of the president who pushed American democracy to the brink.

A riveting, intimate and revelatory account of the most radical and consequential US presidency of our time From the two reporters who have covered him more closely than perhaps anyone else over the past decade comes this definitive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. Regime Change covers the first year of Trump’s second presidency – a term liberated from every constraint that defined his first. The generals who once told him ‘no’ are gone, and the lawyers who remain have learned to pick their battles. His administration has flouted court orders and he has claimed powers that Congress once checked. What remains is a President willing to take enormous risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; an imperial President operating almost entirely on instinct alone. Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from deep within the administration’s most closely guarded rooms, Regime Change takes the reader inside the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that have launched a new war in the Middle East and seen Trump seal the border, surge National Guard troops into cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protestors. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan bring us behind the scenes of a presidency that has transformed the culture, turned the Justice Department into an agent of retribution against the President’s enemies and the office itself into a brazen vehicle for profit. They reveal a second term propelled by a historical irony that Trump himself has come to understand: that the indictments, the convictions, the assassination attempts and four years of exile made him not weaker but far more powerful, more vengeful and more willing to gamble than any President in modern history. This is the story of how Trump has used that power, who has tried to stop him, and why nearly all of them have failed. It is also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to chronicling in distant capitals than in their own: a President who has fundamentally altered the nature of the office he holds – and, with it, how the rest of the world understands American power. It is an account of Regime Change right here in America – a landmark real-time history of a modern presidency like no other.

The #1 New York Times bestseller - Updated with new reporting through the 2024 election "The definitive biography of Trump." --Financial Times "Will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come." --Joe Klein, The New York Times "A political epic." --The Guardian "A uniquely illuminating portrait." --Sean Wilentz, The Washington PostFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter most central to our knowledge of Donald J. Trump, the magnificent and disturbing Confidence Man chronicles his life and its meaning, including a reckoning with the 2024 election. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. Now with a revelatory afterword on Trump's second presidential victory, Haberman shares the full depth of her understanding of the forty-fifth and forty-seventh president and of the Trump phenomenon. Interviews with hundreds of sources, including Trump himself, portray a complicated and often contradictory historical figure. Capable of kindness but reliant on casual cruelty. Pugnacious. Insecure. Lonely. Menacing. Smarter than his critics contend and colder and more calculating than his allies believe. A man whose path to high office began thirty years before he became a president who pushed American democracy to the brink. Inevitably, Confidence Man is also about the world that produced such a singular character, and how the New York of the 1970s and '80s shaped Trump's rise. As Haberman makes clear, relentlessly transactional relationships, an overpowering survival instinct, and a fixation with loyalty have been throughlines of Trump's life - and continue to guide him. Her mastery of this illuminating biography, and her singular newsbreaking ability, make Confidence Man the definitive account of one of the most consequential eras in American history.

Donald Trump var tidigt en mytomspunnen man. Många av historierna fabricerades och spreds av Trump själv, som då var en publicitetshungrig imperiebyggare i fastighets- och hotellbranschen. Och när han sedan klev in i politiken och blev USA:s president var det fortfarande lögnerna och osanningarna som definierade honom. Ingen journalist har följt Donald Trumps karriär lika länge som Maggie Haberman och ingen är lika väl skickad att punktera myterna och ge en heltäckande bild av hans osannolika färd mot toppen. Confidence man är den definitiva biografin om Donald Trump, baserad på hundratals intervjuer, bland annat med Trump själv och hans innersta krets.

Donald Trump var tidigt en mytomspunnen man. Många av historierna fabricerades och spreds av Trump själv, som då var en publicitetshungrig imperiebyggare i fastighets- och hotellbranschen. Och när han sedan klev in i politiken och blev USA:s president var det fortfarande lögnerna och osanningarna som definierade honom. Ingen journalist har följt Donald Trumps karriär lika länge som Maggie Haberman och ingen är lika väl skickad att punktera myterna och ge en heltäckande bild av hans osannolika färd mot toppen. Confidence man är den definitiva biografin om Donald Trump, baserad på hundratals intervjuer, bland annat med Trump själv och hans innersta krets.

Et forrygende og foruroligende portræt af den mand, der formåede at tyde sit lands drømme og udnytte dem til sin egen fordel.Hun er Donald Trumps erklærede yndlingsfjende blandt journalister. Få forstår ham bedre end hun, og ingen har i højere grad påvirket mediedækningen af den amerikanske forretningsmand, der i 2016 blev valgt som USA’s 45. præsident. Maggie Haberman har fulgt Donald Trump på sidelinjen, først som tabloidreporter på New York Post og senere som korrespondent for The New York Times. Trump selv kalder hende for ’sin psykiater’. I denne bog fortæller hun hele historien – opblomstringen af hans karriere som ung forretningsmand i New York City, skabelsen af Donald Trump som fænomen, hans politiske virke, hvor han formåede at tryllebinde store dele af den amerikanske befolkning - og nu, hvor han med vind i sejlene arbejder på sit politiske comeback i håbet om at generobre det højeste embede i USA. Hvad driver Trump? Hvem er de mennesker, der banede hans vej til magten? Og hvad kan forhindre ham i at blive præsident igen? Bogen tegner et forrygende og foruroligende portræt af Donald Trump og magtmaskinen bag ham – og samtidig et portræt af det land, som han ændrede for altid.”Dette er bogen, som Donald Trump frygter mest af alt” Axios Maggie Haberman regnes som en af de bedste undersøgende journalister i USA. Hun har arbejdet som reporter for New York Post, New York Daily News og magasinet Politico. Siden 2014 har hun været politisk korrespondent for CNN og blev korrespondent i Det Hvide Hus for The New York Times i 2015. Hendes omfattende viden om Donald Trump, hans karriere, metoder og hans organisation har befæstet hendes ry som en af hans skarpeste kritikere. I 2018 vandt hun Pulitzerprisen for at afsløre Trump og hans rådgiveres forbindelse til Rusland.

The #1 New York Times bestseller. "This is the book Trump fears most." --Axios "Will be a primary source about the most vexing president in American history for years to come." --Joe Klein, The New York Times "A uniquely illuminating portrait." --Sean Wilentz, The Washington Post " A] monumental look at Donald Trump and his presidency." --David Shribman, Los Angeles TimesFrom the Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump's presidency like no other journalist, Confidence Man is a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that chronicles his life and its meaning from his rise in New York City to his tortured post-presidency. Few journalists working today have covered Donald Trump more extensively than Maggie Haberman. And few understand him and his motivations better. Now, demonstrating her majestic command of this story, Haberman reveals in full the depth of her understanding of the 45th president himself, and of what the Trump phenomenon means. Interviews with hundreds of sources and numerous interviews over the years with Trump himself portray a complicated and often contradictory historical figure. Capable of kindness but relying on casual cruelty as it suits his purposes. Pugnacious. Insecure. Lonely. Vindictive. Menacing. Smarter than his critics contend and colder and more calculating than his allies believe. A man who embedded himself in popular culture, galvanizing support for a run for high office that he began preliminary spadework for 30 years ago, to ultimately become a president who pushed American democracy to the brink. The through-line of Trump's life and his presidency is the enduring question of what is in it for him or what he needs to say to survive short increments of time in the pursuit of his own interests. Confidence Man is also, inevitably, about the world that produced such a singular character, giving rise to his career and becoming his first stage. It is also about a series of relentlessly transactional relationships. The ones that shaped him most were with girlfriends and wives, with Roy Cohn, with George Steinbrenner, with Mike Tyson and Don King and Roger Stone, with city and state politicians like Robert Morgenthau and Rudy Giuliani, with business partners, with prosecutors, with the media, and with the employees who toiled inside what they commonly called amongst themselves the "Trump Disorganization." That world informed the one that Trump tried to recreate while in the White House. All of Trump's behavior as President had echoes in what came before. In this revelatory and newsmaking book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of one of the most norms-shattering and consequential eras in American political history.