A President Like No Other: Donald J. Trump and the Restoring of America

by Conrad Black

Overview

Conrad Black, bestselling author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, and Flight of the Eagle: America’s Rise from Colonial Upstart to the World’s Superpower, turns his attention to his friend President Donald J. Trump and provides the most intriguing and significant, but certainly not uncritical, analysis yet of Trump's political rise. Ambitious in intellectual scope, contrarian in many of its opinions, and admirably concise, this is surely set to be one of the most provocative political books you are likely to read this year.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641771061
Publisher:	Encounter Books
Publication date:	08/18/2020
Pages:	344
Sales rank:	241,818
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Conrad Black is a financier and former newspaper publisher who controlled the Telegraph and Spectator titles (UK), Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post (Israel), and most of the large newspapers in Canada and Australia, including the National Post (Toronto), which he founded. Black is a widely read commentator on American Greatness, National Review Online, Epoch Times, and elsewhere. He is the author of ten books, including acclaimed biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard M. Nixon and a strategic history of the United States. Black is Canadian and British and has been a member of the House of Lords since 2001.

Table of Contents

Foreword Victor Davis Hanson xi

Chapter 1 The Trumps in America 1

Chapter 2 Donald Trump's Financial Crisis and Recovery 23

Chapter 3 Politics Beckons 37

Chapter 4 Rebranding for Profit and Elections 47

Chapter 5 Preparing to Seek the Grand Prize 59

Chapter 6 Storming Babylon 73

Chapter 7 The Republican Nominee 91

Chapter 8 Race to the Wire 109

Chapter 9 President-Elect 129

Chapter 10 President at Last 149

Chapter 11 A Honeymoon of Hand-to-Hand Combat 167

Chapter 12 Gaining the Upper Hand 193

Acknowledgments 215

Notes 217

Index 221

Editorial Reviews

Is there anything new to say of the most written-about man alive? Yes. Conrad Black is a political observer, an historian, and a businessman who’s done business with Donald Trump (he sold him a building), and was one of the first to take his campaign seriously. Black understands the 45th president not only in the context of his pre-political life and family but in the great sweep of American history. This is an admiring but undeluded biography whose every page has either a shrewd new insight or revealing detail, and often both. It’s also beautifully written, with both a droll wit its subject will surely appreciate and an under- standing of the visceral connection between Trump and the millions of Americans who felt abandoned by both parties. A great and knowing read, and a biography that has the size of its subject.” —Mark Steyn, bestselling author of America Alone, After America, and The Undocumented Mark Steyn “This hard-hitting, well-written, and admirably objective book, written by a remarkably talented historian who moreover knows his subject well, will inform all subsequent serious biographies of Donald J. Trump. There is ammunition galore here both for those who love the president and those who loathe him.” —Andrew Roberts, bestselling author of Napoleon the Great and Churchill: Walking with Destiny “Most readers, like myself, have never met either Conrad Black nor Donald J. Trump. But after reading this engaging biography, those of any political persuasion would wish to do both.”—Professor Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, from his Foreword

“An unremittingly honest yet admiring account of Donald J. Trump. Incandescent intelligence and uplifting prose and vocabulary escort the reader on Trump’s journey from hard-charging businessman to equally robust president. Deeply informative about things not well known or not reported, the book is a luminous account of our fascinating and always interesting chief.”—William Bennett, bestselling author and former United States Secretary of Education

“Conrad Black’s new book on Donald Trump is a brilliant analysis of the remarkable talents and unusual foibles that brought Trump to the presidency of the United States. Black knows Mr. Trump and—with his uncommon knowledge of American history—is able to place him in a fascinating context. Readers will be delighted with Black’s skills as a writer—his scholarship, sense of humor, and irony are on prominent display. A must-read at this seminal juncture in American history.”—The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada

“Black’s accounts of the primaries and the general election, not to mention his hero’s unremittingly embattled presidency, are vivid, judicious, and perceptive. For those who did not follow the election closely, or somehow missed its import, Black’s book is the best place to start to understand an unprecedented president.” —Edward Short, City Journal

“A highly entertaining tale…There is no going back to the politics of the 1980s and 1990s—and to understand why, readers would do well to consult Conrad Black’s outstanding biography.” —James Piereson, The New Criterion

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